Huangpu River and the Bund is a must for visitors to Shanghai, epitomizing both the history and modernity of Shanghai and displaying some of the city's prime scenery. Huangpu River is the largest river flowing through Shanghai, while the bund is well known for its variegated western architectures.
Being the only existing Ming Dynasty garden, Yuyuan Garden is a pearl of the classical gardens in the south of the Yangtze River in China, located in the northeast of the Old Town of Shanghai, not far from the Bund.
Zhujiajiao Town enjoys a reputation of 'Oriental Venice'. If Zhouzhuang, a 900-year-old water township, is as lovely as a daughter of a humble family, then 1,000-year-old Zhujiajiao Town is as majestic as a daughter of a noble family.
Located between the Nanpu Bridge and the Lupu Bridge, Shanghai 2010 Expo, the first comprehensive world expo held in a developing country, is laid out along the banks of the Huangpu River, taking up an area of 1,305 acres.
Located in the center of Shanghai City, Xintiandi, a combination of the traditional shikumen lanes and modern buildings, is actually a pedestrian street for recreation, specializing in food, business, entertainment, and culture.
A popular Chinese saying about Qibao Ancient Town says that Pudong is a window of Shanghai's development in the past decade; the Bund witnesses the dramatic changes of Shanghai in the past hundred years; while Qibao sees Shanghai's prolonged history of thousand years.
Full of colorful marine lives and corals, Shanghai Ocean Aquarium is known as one of the biggest ocean park of artificial seawater in the world, and the only ocean park in the world that owns an exhibition area especially for reflecting the aquatic animals and ecology of the Yangtze River.
Located in Huangpu District, Nanjing Road is the busiest and the liveliest commercial street in Shanghai, and one of the most famous commercial streets in the world, renown for 'the No. 1 commercial street in China'.
Shanghai Museum, a museum for ancient Chinese art relics, is characterized for its bronze wares, porcelain wares, calligraphy and paintings, having a total of 120,000 pieces of precious cultural relics.
