Shanghai has long stepped over all the indicators imaginable and inconceivable even by Chinese standards and became the largest city in the Middle Kingdom and one of the most densely populated in the world. The number of its inhabitants in 2013 approached 25 million. The city is located in the Yangtze Delta, which flows into the East China Sea, and the embankment of Shanghai is on the Huangpu River and is called Waitan.
Skyscrapers, skyscrapers, and I'm so small …
Almost thirteen centuries have passed since the first residential settlements appeared on the banks of the Yangtze. Today, from a provincial provincial town, Shanghai has become the largest economic and financial center not only in China, but throughout Asia. Famous banks and international companies are concentrated in the skyscrapers of its Pudong business center, located on the other side of the river, opposite the Shanghai waterfront. Many buildings are in the top of the tallest in the world.
On the outer bank
The name of the Shanghai embankment means "outer bank" in Chinese. From colonial times, ancient buildings have survived here, in which trading companies of Great Britain, France, Russia and Japan were located for decades. The consulates of many world powers, including the Russian Federation, still operate in mansions on the banks of the river.
The Bund, the Bund, stretches north of old Shanghai, whose historic center was walled in the old days. Moreover, it was in the Waitan region that the main financial center of East Asia was born.
Art Deco Museum
The Shanghai waterfront is often referred to as an open-air art deco museum. There are more than fifty mansions built in various architectural styles, among which this one dominates:
- The most luxurious building between the Suez Canal and the Bering Strait was called the Hong Kong-Shanghai Banking Corporation, built in 1923. Today, the mansion houses the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank.
- The striking clock, similar to London's Big Ben, on the customs building was made in the UK. The building appeared on the Shanghai waterfront in 1927.
- The building of the Peace Hotel was built by a man who was called the master of half of Shanghai. Victor Sassoon lived in an apartment on the top floor of the hotel, and today the mansion is famous for a jazz cafe, where world-famous musicians perform.
The most beautiful street in old Shanghai has become the scene of the popular Hong Kong TV series about the life of the underworld.
