Shanghai Introduction

Shanghai is a city full of a variety of wonderful things all the year round.In Shanghai, you not only can keep in touch with many things in fashion, but also explore and visit the oldest historic civilization.

Release time : 2016-10-08 15:10:36

source : WTCF

of Japan and became a city with a radius of 4.5km. From then on, Shanghai accelerated its pace of development, being the country’s largest cotton textile handicraft center. Until the Qing Dynasty, Shanghai was forced to be turned into a commercial port, one of the biggest ports for trade. After that, the imperialist powers had invaded Shanghai and competed to set up concessions in Shanghai. They built a lot of houses and facilities among which the exotic buildings cluster on the Bund and People’s Park are representatives.

Over the past century, Shanghai became the “Adventurer’s Paradise” of the foreign invaders. On November 29, 1845, Mujiu Gong, one of the executives in Shanghai, published Land Statute, stipulating the scope of English settlement and the methods of tenancy. On April 6, 1849, France obtained a settlement in Shanghai. On July 11, 1857, Municipal committee was founded and arbitrarily altered the Land Statute. England, France and America began to employ armed police. On September 21, 1863, British concession and American concession were merged into one. In 1899, these two countries continued to expand their land and changed its name into international public concession.

In July, 1921, the Communist Party of China was secretly founded in the French concession and held the first Congress of the Communist Party of China. In 1925, with the outbreak of May Thirtieth Movement, Chinese people’s armed struggle began. In 1937, with the outbreak of the tragic Battle of Shanghai, Shanghai citizens were involved in the war. On May 27, 1949, Shanghai was liberated.

After the 1990s, Shanghai became the most important economic, financial and trading center in China again. In 1993, the development and opening up of Pudong accelerated the pace of development of the city. Nowadays, it has become the country’s economic center and an international financial center.

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