Shanghai

The well-known Shanghai represents the popular tourist centre. In an antiquity on a city place there was a fishing settlement. In 16 century there is a city of dealers and handicraftsmen. Then the port of Shanghai is used in trade with the countries of Asia and the Western Europe.

Modern Shanghai - the biggest city of the Peoples Republic of China. The largest industrial and financial centre, the largest seaport. The port is located in 50 km upstream the rivers Jantszy from a place of a confluence of the East China Sea.

Shanghai is, it is possible to tell, a mould from the Chinese history of last century, many monuments of this period here have remained. To take for example a place where participants of Tajpinsky revolt of 19 centuries operated; numerous buildings of the foreign companies, symbols of Shanghai playing a role of the important trading China important trading and customs city; buildings where lived Put Ятсен, Сун Цинлин, Лу the Blue; the house where there passed the first, constituent congress of Communist Party of China. Shanghai is also a city where new lifting of the Chinese reform and an openness already was designated today.

Symbols of this lifting are the new bridge through the river Huanpu, the Shanghai television tower which has got the name "East pearl", underground, road эстакады, the reconstructed quay Vajtan, the National area, тороговый small town "Юйюань", grown as mushrooms after a rain high-rise buildings and offices. As is known, Shanghai involves people with the atmosphere of the international megacity.

Quay Vajtan - here walking street actors or dealers entertain. Surrounding buildings are executed in style of neo-classicism of 30th years and are similar to the brothers in Chicago and New York. Вайтань - a symbol of Shanghai, it is known also under the name of "fair of architecture of ten thousand states".

Here atmosphere of other states reigns. Вайтань it is especially beautiful in the evening when in a city multi-coloured fires are lighted.
The street Nankinlu is a trading Eldorado of China, here it is possible to find practically all. Till 1949 on Нанкинлу there were the most prestigious restaurants, shops, night clubs. As to shops, it till now so. It is good to walk lengthways on Нанкинлу in the evening! Bright show-windows and a sparkling of neon fires... In show-windows sometimes it is possible to see hairdressing salons and beauty salons: Shanghai always was famous for the hairdressers in China.

Garden and market Юй Yuan - extensive market area in a northeast part of old Chinese quarter. Its centre is garden Юй Yuan or, otherwise, the Tangerine garden (Yuyuan Shangchang) and a temple of City Gods (Chenghuang Miao). Many tourists consider it as one of the most interesting places of Shanghai. A garden have broken in XVI century for a rich family of officials of an epoch of Minute In a garden there is a temple of City Gods which presumably should protect the world and calmness of Shanghai. Round a temple and a garden the trading zone has gradually grown. Tourists enter into it through tea Усинтин (Wuxingting Chaguan), an original pentagonal building in the pond centre. The adjoining market has more than one hundred benches and the shops selling every possible souvenirs with the Chinese symbolics, pictures, antiques, products from a bamboo, products from bowls, and also pelmeni, wine, chicken soup, pies with a radish etc., etc.

Temple Нефритового of the Buddha has been constructed in 1911 - 1918 Outside of it easily to learn on walls of bright saffron-yellow colour. Inside the most important thing is the two-metre statue of the Buddha from a white nephrite. The Buddha was brought in a province by Chekiang the monk from Burma in 1882 It is said that the statue together with incrustation weighs about ton. The Buddha here not one - in the big hall there are three more gilt Buddhas, in other halls are placed a frightening kind of a deity - defenders of the Doctrine. Temple walls are decorated by 7 thousand буддистских сутр.
Park Hunkou is in northern Shanghai. As tourist sight it is known thanks to a tomb of writer Lu Sinja, the founder of the modern Chinese literature, the scientist and the teacher. It was not the communist, but the majority of its books have been forbidden by mode Гоминьдана, and he hid in the French quarter. Message Лу Синя of the Chinese youth of 30th years says: "Think and study economic problems of a society, pass through hundreds dead villages, come to generals, and then come to victims, learn realities of time widely open eyes and clear mind, and work for the sake of the clarified society, but always think, think and study".

The television tower "the East pearl" has been constructed in 1994, the television tower height - 468 m. Is the highest television tower in Asia and the third on height in the world. Nowadays the television tower "the East pearl" already became the present symbol of Shanghai.