The Bund
Nanjing Road
Old City
Wujiaochang
The Bund
Nanjing Road
Shanghai Old Town
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Tong Hanchun Durgstore
Former Bank of China, Office of Nanshi
1 Renmin Road
Jiangwan Wujiaochang
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The Hospital Museum of the SMMN
Former China Aviation Association Headquaters(Aircraft Building)
168 Changhai Road
As a city card for Shanghai, the Bund, with a length of 1.5 kilometers, starts from East Yan'an Road in the south, Waibaidu Bridge in the north, Huangpu River in the east, and over 20 historical buildings in different styles along the east zhongshan No.1 Road. The Bund is the starting point for the development of modern Shanghai. Before 1843, it was a mudflat along the Huangpu river, then it became the financial and trade center of shanghai and even china. The Bund landscape we can see nowadays has basically taken shape in the 1930s. On November 20, 1996, the architectural complex of the Bund in Shanghai was listed as the fourth batch of national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council. Now the Bund still exudes a unique charm with the classic beauty of the architectural complex.
Nanjing Road,including West Nanjing Road and East Nanjing Road starts from Jing'an Park in the west and ends at Shanghai People's Park in the east which has been converted fron Horse Racing Tracks of SRC(Shanghai Racing Club).East Nanjing Road stats from East Zhoushan No.1 Road in the Bund and ends at Middle Xizang Road in the West.West part of Middle Henan Road is the pedestrian street.After opening the port,it becomes the first commerical street in Shanghai and shares a reputation of the No.1 commercial street in China. The once renowned four prestigious depart-ment stores, the Grand Thetate and the Park Hotel were all located here and now various time-honored brands still stand here, attracting foreign and domestic tourists every day. This road is continuing it prosperity for nearly a century.
Shanghai Old Town is the historic city area in Shanghai, and was once the center of Shanghai Country in history. The old town about 7 kliometers in circumference with a total area of 199,72 hectares. With the opening of the port and the setting up of concession in Shanghai, the Old Town has become part of larger modern Shanghai Downtown, and remained the seat of Shanghai's administrative body for a long time. The City God Temple of Shanghai in the center of area, and the nearby classical Yu Garden are both well-preserved. The Confucian Temple in the southwest area was demolished in 1912-1914, and only two remnants of the Dajing Road in the samll north gate, Huangpu District, have been retained. From 1937 to 1940, the French priest Robert Jacquinot de Besange set up the safety zone in former Nanshi District, sheltering and protecting over 300,000 refugees. In the second half of the 20th century, Shanghai Old Town was basically in line with scope of the Nanshi District, and now merged into the Hunagpu District, becoming the historical and centural area of the old city.
The “Great Shanghai Plan” is localed on the modem day Wujiaochang area In 1930s, the Shanghai Municipal Govem ment planned to create a new administrative contor in the suburbs of shanghai to break the monopoly of the International Settlement and the French Concession This plan aimed to turn the Jiangwan into a city center of goverment buildings and other public facilities The construction gradually began ator July 1929 Due to Japanese troops invasion in 193/ the plan had to be suspended with only a small part of the project completed The Great Shanghai Planhadn'tgot restart ed afer China s victory in 1945 because of the lack of financial rosources, leaving a handful of public buildings scatter around the Wujiaochang area All these histoncal buildings wore designed by architect Dong Dayou
