Shanghai - The Shining City of New Age China

March 18, 2010

Shanghai has always been a model city in China. This cosmopolitan metropolis and an easy on the banks of the Yangtze river is wide, it is fast on its way to join the band in the world's most interesting cities in the world. And: "Remember that the world as a city that is huge potential to contribute to the global economy. Shanghai, the largest city in China and the eighth largest in the world.The city is a sweet blend of traditional Eastern culture gelling well with the modern West, like in its architecture and modern way of thinking and life. Huangpu River, which flows through the city, has divided the city. Puxi is the old town on the western side, while the east is the new Pudong fascinating.

Cities like Shanghai, the most populous and most developed in China has always been the bastion of intellectual, cultural, financial, commercial andIndustrial Eminence. From its humble beginnings as a fishing village by the sea before the twelfth century, Shanghai is now the focal point of the software, electronics, communications, and the citadel of modern China 's economy and finance. Has the honor of Shanghai, the largest shopping center in the Far East and the Third World to New York and London. E 'equipped with the world's largest and most active ports in addition to other high-speed means of transport andCommunication. Shanghai was entitled to the "Queen of Paris of the East", and "eastern" for both tourists and for business from around the world called Horizons galore.

Like other global biggies Shanghai not on the challenges associated with massive migration of workers in the combined flocked here from other cities. Most studies are in terms of housing issues, large disparities in wealth, environmental destruction and other stressorswhich inevitably linked to the life in big cities. But are these challenges more quickly with higher resolution adopted by its inhabitants to come at a high international level and get ready to compete with more enthusiasm. The struggle to keep alive in the crazy life of the great city becomes a way of life for the people. It is only under these circumstances that the people are given the platform to show their best, too.

Time has shown that the inhabitants of the city of Shanghaihave lived up to the standards and delivered great but the best. Modern high-rise buildings to kiss the sky lit with neon lights shinning the light of the dark, rapid movements of people and material toll motorways at high speed, wide streets, up to date life style, advanced technology and the high share is not any alien or green eyes full of tears with envy. In fact, the signs of economic growth and development, which seems to have the land and the people in Shanghai arearranged for them. The city that never sleeps, because it will contribute in constant unrest, with various activities to ensure that everyone in his way, the vitality and dynamism of the city.

The road to development has not been easy, considering the Opium Wars, Taipang Rebellion, and occupation by the Japanese, other than political turmoil and competition from Hong Kong, which could have devastated the city, but the immortal spirit of the city. Today, Shanghai is a paradise forcommercial and financial interests and the shopping paradise of kitchen and into the pockets of any kind where the old buildings and houses and traditional markets rub shoulders with modern skyscrapers and shopping malls movement today. Nanjing Road is the joy of modern people and people with artistic taste Yuyuan Bazaar, the answer. Shanghai 's restaurants serve culinary delights is commendable on the model of Yang Zhou, Guangzhou and Beijing, Sichuan and itsResident kitchen.

Shanghai is a house of religions can. Taoism is the religion of indigenous Chinese philosophy is practiced based on the majority. The temple of the city of God is at the heart of the old town is a house of the three gods of the natives venerated as the protector of the city entirely. Wenmiao Temple is offered with the great thinker Confucius and the Temple of the Three Kingdoms will be granted to the general Guan Yu.

In addition, the city is the presence ofBuddhism, Islam and Christianity. Rate and the most popular destination is the Jade Buddha Temple, where the statue of Buddha carved from jade creative gem. Shanghai as a host of other religious places of importance such as the Songjiang Mosque in the province of Songjiang, the traditional Xiaotaoyuan mosque in the old town. Other important places of worship are Dongjiadu Cathedral, She Shan Cathedral and the Cathedral of St. Ignatius in the district of Xujiahui.

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