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Shanghai is situated on the Huangpu River - the right tributary of the great Yangtze River, which separates China into northern and southern China. Today Shanghai is the most populous city of the China - here live more than 15 million people.
Until the mid-XIX century, Shanghai was just a small port of China. But when in 1842, during the First Opium War, the old China's wooden fleet was destroyed by the Emperor with much more modern Britain fleet, everything was changed here. Since this time Shanghai, along with four other China's ports was opened to Europeans. Shanghai was called and the pearl of the East, Asian New York and Paris in China.
In the local teahouses at the beginning of XX century Lumiere brothers showed their films, here built the tallest buildings in the whole Asia and even in 1930 in Shanghai, there were more cars than all other Chinese cities together. In 1921 here was hosted the first congress of the Communist Party of China.
After the proclamation of Cinese People's Republic in 1949, development of the city have stalled. The new rise began only 40 years later, when a wave of large-scale economic reforms were unveiled a plan to build Pudong - a modern area between Huangpu and Yangtze rivers.
Since then, China investors and foreign investors invested nearly $ 22 billion in more than 10,000 different projects in China, in the Shanghai city rose ultramodern hotels and office buildings. In Shanghai, there was a first in the world of magnetic path - Maglev Train (short for "magnetic levitation") - linking the new Pudong international airport with the city center.
The main shopping street in Shanghai (China) for a long time is the Nanjing. It is hard to believe that in the early XX century there were only four major store. In recent years the street is being restored and converted into a pedestrian. Here are the major Shanghai shopping malls, shops, famous worldwide companies and hotels of the highest class.
Time for tea
In the heart of old Shanghai is a famous tea Husintin. It stands on an island in the middle of the pond, it connects with the shore intricate bridge of nine turns. If you're sick, you shop at Nanjing Road, or tired of the frenzied rhythm of Shanghai's life - you here.
This serves tens of different teas from all over China; some varieties calm, other bracing third - a little dope. Waiters, poured in a cup of boiling water from the kettle with an elongated beak, do not miss a chance to show visitors its impeccable apprenticeship: standing at a distance meter and a half away from the table, they get the tap exactly at the tea leaves in a cup.
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