Shanghai's local government and great leaders of China. He also uttered excitedly It is so unbelievable that I do not know how to depict my visiting experiences on the way from Pudong International Airport to the downtown Shanghai for American people, and I totally believe such kind of impression and feeling I have is shared by many others who also visited this changing city. Shanghai people are truly deserved to be proud of their own home.
This is Shanghai characterized of vitality and prosperousness, which thoroughly draw more and more peoples' eyes, particularly those foreigners who are fond of oriental culture and China, because Shanghai has been the center of Chinese economy and the largest port around the world after 1978. It also functions as the window for foreigners learning of China and bridges the world with China. Hence, summarily if a traveler wants to visit China, Shanghai undoubtedly is his/her priority and first choice other than the some other typical cities in China.
Shanghai locates in the alluvial plain of Yangtze River, renowned for the river named Shanghaipu, the anabranch of Wusong River. In the era of Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 B.C), Shanghai was under the control of Wu. At the days of Warring States(475-221B.C), some local fisherfolk invented the halieutics tools named as Hu, and then called this region as Hudu, furthermore, in order to guard against pirates, the local government built ramparts along the coast, therefore shanghai was called Hu for short. Shanghai was reputed as the convenient ferry in Yangtze River and Eastern Ocean, the well-marked Center in southeastern China. Another saying goes like this if you want to learn two-thousand-year history of China, please visit Xian. If you want to learn one-thousand-year history of China, Please visit Beijing. If you are interested in one-hundred-year history of China, please visit Shanghai. Shanghai as the mirror of the modern China possesses of the rich and massive historical records and it is also added a more particular aurola as the birthplace of Chinese Communist Party.
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