“Shanghai is a scintillating city swirling with rapid cultural change. Since market restrictions were lifted, Shanghai has embraced the forces of business and design and rewritten its rule book shaping a fresh, new city that is sophisticated, innovative and living a life it has never lived before.”
--Quoted from Lonely
Ten reasons to visit Shanghai: 1. Shanghai is the biggest and the most important economic center of China.
2. Shanghai has been listed to the Top Ten of the biggest population cities in the world.
3. Experience the "China's No. l Street"--Nanjing Road.
4. Travel the Bund, which is the symbol of old and new Shanghai.
5. Tour Oriental Pearl Radio and TV Tower--the highest tower in Asia and the third highest in the world.
6. Visit Jinmao Tower and see the tallest building in China and the third tallest one in the world.
7. Taste the world's first commercial Maglev Line.
8. View the longest arch bridge in the world--Lupu Bridge.
9. Explore the history of Yu Garden.
10. Enjoy the high taste of the fashionable Shanghai lifestyle. Located at the center of the mainland's coastline, Shanghai has long been a major centre of communications, transportation, and international exchange. The municipality covers an area of 6,341 square kilometers and has a population of more than 13.5 million. Shanghai is China's largest economic comprehensive industrial base, and a famous historical and cultural city.
Shanghai is very attractive city and it is one of the most modern cities in China. With the enthralling mix of cultures, skyscrapers, symbols of a thriving business community, Pudong could bring you a unique experience of city sightseeing. Visitors to Shanghai are not only dazzled by the modern metropolis and gateway to a developing China, but are also able to immerse themselves in the unique Shanghai culture, a combination of Chinese and Western elements.
Walking along in Shanghai streets, you can get an impressible feeling about such a charming and fashionable city. Just enjoy and taste the special characters of Shanghai!
[The "World Architecture Museum"]
The well-known Bund is a must for visitors to Shanghai. Fifty-two buildings lining the narrow shoreline of the Huangpu River offer a living exhibition of Gothic, Baroque,Roman,Classic Revival and Renaissance architectural styles, as well as combinations of Chinese and Western styles. They are also a condensation of the recent history of the city. The wide embankment offers ample room for strolling and is used by locals for morning exercises and evening gatherings. In the evening, colorful lights illuminate the area and create a shimmering image deserving of the name Pearl of the Orient.
“The Bund, also called the Zhongshan Road, is the waterfront area of Pu Xi (West City) that faces the newer part of Shanghai - Pu Dong (East City). The Bund has been regarded as the symbol of Shanghai for hundreds of years, is less than one mile in length, and is a popular desitnation for tourists. Walking along the Bund at night is a fascinating site, as the entire PuDong skyline (across the river) is illuminated, including the Oriental Pearl TV Tower and the 3rd tallest building in the world - Jin Mao Tower. And directly across Zhongshan Road, you will see many different types of structures from Old Shanghai, including: Gothic, Baroque, Romanesque, Classicism and Renaissance. ” --by VT
[The tallest TV Tower in Asia]
Faces the Bund across the Huangpu River, the Oriental Pearl TV and Radio Tower is 468 meters high--the tallest in Asia and third tallest in the world. When viewed from the Bund, the tower and the Nanpu and Yangpu bridges create a vivid imagery known as "two dragons playing with a pearl." It has become the new symbol of the city and a major tourist attraction in Shanghai. Visitors can get a bird's-eye view of new Shanghai in sightseeing floors, enjoy the Chinese and western buffet dinner in 267m-high Revolving Restaurant.
[The "China's No. l Street"]
Nanjing Road crosses downtown Shanghai, linking People's Square, where the government buildings are, to the Bund by the Huangpu river. It's a crowded downtown street with lots of shopping malls, department and small stores, plenty of restaurants, and hotels. This street has long been China's golden mile. Once supreme, it's looking a bit frayed and has slipped a few notches to the emerging luxury option of Huaihai Road, but laden shoppers still traipse past its cathedrals of commerce, gazed at by out-of-towners.
"Nanjing Lu, alongside the beautiful Bund, is one of the most popular spots in Shanghai's city centre. This is the place to do your shopping, and the place to eat and go out in the evening. I love it because there are so many different people going about there lives, and so many different scenes of street entertainment. It really is intoxicating, a real eye-opener!!"--by VT
[The third tallest building in the world]
With a height of 420.5 meters, Jin Mao Tower is the tallest building in China and the third tallest in the world. Taking the two elevators at an incredible speed of 9.1m per second, you are able to cover 88 floors in 45 seconds smoothly. You can enjoy a full view of Shanghai on observatory 88. It is the biggest from the height of it. You are able to view the Yangtze River entering the sea and all the scenery of charming Shanghai.you can also send your best wishes to every conrner around the world with its attached post office, the highest one in China.
[ The world's first commercial Maglev Line]
The world's first commerical Maglev Line in Shanghai Pudong, which connect Pudong Airport to the Long Yang Road subway station newr the Lujiazui Financial District. Maglev train system is an invention in the 20th century. It is a new-type of track-bound transport system of high-speed, comfort, energy-saving and environment protection. With a Maximum speed of 430km/h, the 30km journey takes only 8 minutes. You'll have an amazing experience of flying on the ground when you take the Line.
[The longest arch bridge in the world]
The all-steel, 8.7-kilometer-long Lupu Bridge is the longest arch bridge in the world and is the fourth span over the Huangpu River in downtown Shanghai. The bridge built June 2002, will be equipped with four elevators-two in Puxi and two in Pudong-to carry visitors to the top of its 750-meter-plus-arch for sightseeing. Yao Ming, the Chinese NBA basket player, leading the first group to run across the bridge during the opening ceremony.
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