Shanghai

Shanghai is China's largest city, and the world's busiest export port. Let's have a look at the city that so many products that you see and use every day likely passed through. Shanghai is a very old city, that once was walled. It is on an alluvial plain where the Yangtze River, one of China's two great rivers, meets the sea. Shanghai is reputed to have the best education system in China, which is believed to have the best education system in the world.

The Huangpu River is an artificial tributary of the Yangtze River, and is over two thousand years old. The famous street known as the Bund, meaning the waterfront, is built on Zhongshan Road, which is along the Huangpu River. The following scenes begin along the Bund, which is Shanghai's old business district. The domed stone building is the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. It was once the headquarters of HSBC, as well as the Shanghai Municipal Building.

Across the river from the Bund are the tall buildings of the new business district, known as Lujiazui. This has been developed since 1992 as a Special Financial Zone, and is in a bend of the Huangpu River. The building with the globes is the Oriental Pearl Tower. The tallest of the buildings is the Shanghai Tower, which is the tallest building in China. You can see that some of the scenes were taken before the Shanghai Tower was built, and some afterward. The Aurora Plaza building forms a video screen at night.

There are multiple scenes following. To see the scenes, after the first one, you must first click the up arrow, ^, before you can move on to the next scene by clicking the right or forward arrow, >. After clicking the up arrow you can then hide the previews of successive scenes, if you wish.

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This is what it looks like from the observation deck of the Shanghai Tower, with the Bund along the waterfront across the river.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Tower#/media/File:View_from_Shanghai_Tower_Observation_Deck.jpg

Expo 2010 was held on both sides of the Hunagpu River. It's slogan was "Better City, Better Life".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2010#/media/File:Shanghai_(Huang_Pu_River_at_Night)_046.jpg

The following scenes begin in the Old City of Shanghai, but with views of the modern downtown across the Huangpu River. This part of the city used to be walled, until the walls were dismantled in 1912.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_City_of_Shanghai#/media/File:Shanghai_Old_City_Shuimen.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_City_of_Shanghai#/media/File:Dismantlement_of_the_Shanghai_Old_City_walls.jpg


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These scenes are amidst the tall buildings of the modern downtown of Shanghai, known as Lujiazui.

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The following scenes begin in the area around Nanjing Road and People's Square Park, in the middle of downtown.

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Here is a residential area, that seems to be fairly typical of Shanghai.

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This is Shanghai Disneyland.

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Finally, here is the Formula 1 Grand Prix auto racing track in Shanghai, known as the Shanghai International Circuit. The name of Formula 1 refers to the standards that the cars in the race have to adhere to.

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