China's largest city. Yangtze River delta in the east coast of China was founded. This city is very crowded, is also China's most important port city.
Shanghai, east China on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta area, China, the largest in the world is the eighth largest city. China's modern economy is widely seen as a bastion of the city, with the direction of the nation's most important cultural, commercial, industrial and communications centers as one of the accepted. Administrative as Shanghai, People's Republic of China is a municipality in the province status. Shanghai, is one of the world's busiest ports, and in 2005 became the world's largest cargo port.
Formerly a small fishing town, Shanghai, skyscrapers of the 2000s was approximately 1000 and 3000 the metropolitan of them turned out to be under construction. China's most important cities of the twentieth century, the city with the Republic of popular culture in the period, was the center of intellectual debate and political events.
Shanghai, after the 1949 communist revolution, the central government's heavy taxation, foreign investment and the end of life lost due to the liquidation of urban elements. The establishment of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 1990 and then in Shanghai in 1992, central government authority, together with the redevelopment of the market economy moving again, winning the city, has been the pioneer of China's economic growth.
21. century Shanghai, the increasing migration of workers, huge income gaps and are struggling with urban problems such as environmental problems. Skyscrapers and modern lifestyle, often shown as a reference to China's economic development, although the city has the problem not been solved yet.
Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai World Financial MerkeziŞanghay, from May to October 2010 and will host the Expo 2010 World Fair.
Recently, the city hosts global events in the Formula 1 Chinese Grand Race, men's tennis in the year's top eight name has joined Masters Cup and the July 7, 2007 global warming seven continents carried Live Earth (Living Earth) concerts, the Asian leg sounds like bringing organizations is located.