There are an endless array of shops in Shanghai ranging from large superstores to designer label anything, to boutique jewellers, to street peddlers, it has a fascinating mixture of east and west and is as popular with tourists as it is with the locals. It is an indespensible part of China’s tourism industry. You can buy anything almost anywhere, […]
Pudong means ‘east of Huangpu’ and is situated on the eastern river bank of the Huangpu river in Shanghai. Until 1990 Shanghai’s Pudong district was farmland and countryside, and since then it has become one of China’s most important financial and commercial hubs, home to the Lujiazui finance and trade zone and Shanghai’s stock exchange. It has […]
The meaning for Shanghai is ‘upper reaches of the sea, above the sea’ and is situated on the eastern shore of China on the banks of China’s largest river, the Yangtze River, it was this strategic position that helped it to become an important trading centre with the west. Originally a fishing town, Shanghai is […]