Residents and tourists will be able to visit the former Yangshupu Power Plant, once the biggest thermal power plant in East Asia and the city's tallest structure, from Saturday.

The plant, which was built in 1913 and operated until 2010, will be open to the public for the first time along with a dozen of China's earliest industrial heritages in Yangpu District with the opening of a new section of the riverside region along the Huangpu River.

The 2.7-kilometer riverside area between Yangpu Bridge and the power plant will offer jogging, cycling and walking paths, the district government said on Monday.