Shanghai Travel and Tours Guide
Located at the center of the mainland's coastline,
Shanghai has long been a major hub 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.
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. Colorful festivals and celebrations dot the yearly Shanghai
activities calendar, such as the Shanghai Nanhui Peach Blossoms Festival,
Shanghai International Tea Culture Festival and Shanghai China International
Art Festival.
The Bund
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 Yu Gardens
The Yu Gardens are a classical landscape in the
Southern Chinese style with a history of more than 400 years. Pavilions, halls,
rockeries and ponds display the finest in landscaping from the Southern style
as seen in the Ming and Qing dynasties. More than 40 landscapes were
ingeniously separated by latticed walls, winding corridors, and lattice
windows.
Nanjing Road
Nanjing Road East, honored as "China's No. l Street",
has become an all-weather pedestrian arcade. Shops and restaurants provide
products and services with their own characteristics, making it an ideal place
that integrates shopping, restaurants, amusement and sightseeing.
Jin Mao Tower
With 88 stories reaching a height of 420.5 meters and
290,000 square meter construction area, Jin Mao Tower, which literally means
"Gold Luxuriance Building" in Chinese, is a perfect combination of traditional
Chinese architectural style and the world's modern architectural technology.
The first two floors are a capacious and bright lobby.
From the third to the 50th floor are spacious offices, which are open-plan
(column-free) with a floor-to-floor height of 4 meters and a floor-to-ceiling
height of 2.7m. The 51st and 52nd floors are mechanical rooms. The Grand Hyatt
Shanghai hotel occupies floors from 53 to 87. It's the world's tallest
five-star hotel in terms of distance from the ground, which boasts a 152m
barrel-vaulted atrium that is lined with 28 annular well-illuminated corridors
and staircases arrayed in a spiral. The 88th floor houses the Skywalk, a
1,520-square-meter indoor observation deck, which is the tallest and biggest
one of its kind in the Chinese mainland. It offers a panoramic view of Shanghai
and a topside view of the hotel atrium below.
Shanghai Science and Technology
Museum
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum (SSTM) that
located in Pudong's huamu area is an important base in Shanghai for science
education and spiritual civilization construction, and national AAAA tourist
site as well. The whole building is magnificent: the spiral unsymmetrical
structure that high in the West and lower in the East symbolizes the
development of nature, human and technology; huge glass curtain wall stands for
the open, transparent and close to the public; the vitelline ball in the middle
hall implies the life-breeding in the space; and the heavy roof reflects the
unavoidable historic mission that SSTM committed.