Shanghi-Padong District Panorama

by World Reflections By Sharon

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Shanghi-Padong District Panorama

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World Reflections By Sharon

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This a a panorama of Shanghai.

"Shanghai...city and province-level shi (municipality), east-central China. It is one of the world’s largest seaports and a major industrial and commercial centre of China. The city is located on the coast of the East China Sea between the mouth of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) to the north and the bay of Hangzhou to the south. The municipality’s area includes the city itself, surrounding suburbs, and an agricultural hinterland. Shanghai is China’s most-populous city, and the municipality is its most-populous urban area. Shanghai was one of the first Chinese ports to be opened to Western trade, and it long dominated the nation’s commerce. Since the communist victory in 1949, however, it has become an industrial giant whose products supply China’s growing domestic demands. The city has also undergone extensive physical changes with the establishment of industrial suburbs and housing complexes, the improvement of public works, and the provision of parks and other recreational facilities. Shanghai has attempted to eradicate the economic and psychological legacies of its exploited past through physical and social transformation to support its major role in the modernization of China. Area Shanghai municipality, 2,400 square miles (6,200 square km). Pop (2010) city, 20,217,748; Shanghai municipality, 23,019,196; (2014 est.) Shanghai municipality, 24,256,800. The Pudong district, directly east across the Huangpu from the central business district of Puxi, was founded in 1870 as one of the earliest industrial areas; it was once notorious as the city’s most extensive and appalling slum. The Lujiazui finance and trade zone as well as modern business complexes—including the 88-story Jin Mao Tower (completed 1999), the 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center (completed 2008), and the 128-story Shanghai Tower (completed 2015)—are now located there, and the Pudong New District was established in the area in 1993. A large site along the Huangpu in Pudong housed the major portion of the Expo Shanghai 2010 world exposition in 2010, with a smaller site across the river in Puxi." from Encyclopedia Britannica

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December 4th, 2021

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