Shanghai Introduction
Shanghai (China: 上 海) is the largest city in China in terms of population and one of the largest cities in the world, with over 20 million people in its metropolitan area expanded. Located on the central east coast of China at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the city as a municipality having the status of the province level maintained.
Shanghai with a population of over 18 million (and over 5.8 million migrants), is one of the most populated and most developed of the People’s Republic of China. Shanghai was the largest city of the rich and the Far East in the 1930s and remained the most developed city in China. Over the past 20 years, Shanghai has again been an attractive city for tourists from around the world.
Originally fishing and textiles town grew in importance during the 19th Century Shanghai because of its convenient location and open port as one of the cities in foreign trade from 1842 Treaty of Nanking. The city as a trade center between East and West flourished and became a center of global finance and multinational business in the 1930s. However, Shanghai’s prosperity ended after the communist takeover of 1949 and the subsequent adaptation of foreign investment. The economic reforms in 1990 led to an intense development and financing, and in 2005 in Shanghai, the busiest port in the world of freight.
The city is an emerging tourist destination for its historical attractions like the Bund and Xintiandi, the horizon is modern and growing Pudong, including the famous Oriental Pearl Tower and the new reputation as a center of culture and design. Today, in Shanghai, the center of China for trade and finance, and was described as a “jewel” of the world’s fastest growing economy.
