Most sections of the people of Canton Road was originally west wall, separating the city and the West off the business district. Republic of China for nine years (1920) began to dismantle the walls, the construction of roads, including the South Pacific , North Pacific (nowalong the Road to Dade Road section), Fengning Road (now Dade Road to Zhongshan Road section), Chang Gung Road (now Zhongshan Road convenient to the hospital, now Guangzhou first people's hospitalsegment); people's Republic of aChina shortly after the founding of the construction of the tiger long Road (now Guangzhou first people's hospital to Dongfeng Road section); further north is built in 20 1960 to 1974 was built.
In 1966 the Cultural Revolution period, Taiping South Road ( exitsouth), Fengning Road (the "Zekang Ning Feng" meaning), Chang Gung Memorial Road, tiger long way these four old road, are combined authorities changed their name to "People's Road", has no restoration of.
1986 from Liuhuahu people on the road south of the banks of retrofittingRenmin Road Elevated Road . The view was expressed that due to the elevated road blocked the road on both sides of the arcade landscape also led the arcade beneath the dark street, only to commercial Wadi year decline, it requires clearance viaduct voice increasing. Opponents, however, believes that there is no way the people of the elevated road will be long traffic jam phenomenon.
The early 1990s, to meet the full range of Dongfeng Road Reconstruction, cancel traffic lights, people can not go straight along the road when the vehicle is a two-way road with people to Dongfeng Road, Dongfeng Road must turn right, the vehicle can turn on the disk or blessing Dongfeng Road overpass viaduct. 10 tons of vehicles people can use the road viaduct across the Dongfeng Road.