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With a history of more than 700 years, Shanghai was once the financial center of the Far East. Since the reforms that began in the 1990s, great changes have taken place in the city. The municipal government is working towards building Shanghai into a modern metropolis and into a world economic, financial, trading and shipping center by 2020.

Lying on the estuary of Chang Jiang (Yangtze) River, Shanghai is regarded as the economic capital in mainland China. It's one of the most developed cities in China. Besides its leading role of economic development, Shanghai also serves as the important cultural, financial, trading and industrial centers of China. The importance of Shanghai grew radically since the influx of Westerners who divided Shanghai into different concessions and made it into an international port city after the first Opium War. Undergone its heyday from the 1920s to the late 1930s and the economic reform since 1992, Shanghai now becomes one of the leading cities in East Asia.


If compared to Paris in its 1930s, Shanghai nowadays is more like New York. Arriving in Shanghai, immediately, you will be overwhelmed by all the crowds, autos, malls and skyscrapers. As the largest city in mainland china in terms of population (18 million) and density (2,945/kmq, Shanghai is a booming melting pot of East and West. Since 1992, Chinese from other provinces have kept moving to Shanghai to seek better working and living opportunities, including people from * and *. Global enterprises swarm into Shanghai, which has brought along large amount of foreigners, especially westerners.

Shanghai offers you a wide choice of sightseeing, shopping and living. At the Bund, facing Pudong (east side of the river), you can feel the excitement and vitality of the city. Architectures of world famous banks and skyscrapers erect on both sides of the river with cargo ships bustling on. Jinmao Tower in Pudong is the tallest building mainland China and ranks the fifth in the world. The nearby Shanghai World Financial Center, the world's tallest building to be, is now under construction and will be complete by 2008. Strolling around French Concession and Nanjing Road, you may find that modern Shanghai is swaying over fashions and fads. Shopping malls, tiny shops and flagship stores are emerging on almost every main street, making Shanghai a shopper's paradise. Also you will never worry about finding bars, restaurants, bookstores, museums, or galleries in main commercial centers of Shanghai. Shanghai at night is a sleepless city with dazzling neon lights and flashing billboards along the street sides. People keep going it and out of bars, parties, restaurants, and cinemas till late night. The most attractive part of Shanghai is that Western and eastern cultures coexist in the metropolis. You can appreciate European architectures on hustling avenues as well as local residency at the quite backstreets. No wonder Shanghai is fancy land for you to explore and will always surprise you.

Shanghai is the largest city in China in terms of population with over 20 million people in its metropolitan area.Located on China's central eastern coast at the mouth of the Yangtze River,the city is...