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is bounded to the east by the East China Sea.
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He organized people to excavate the Huangpu River
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as part of a foreign divestment due to the Communist victory.
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Shanghai was finally permitted to initiate economic reforms in 1991
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Shanghai sits on the Yangtze River Delta on China's eastern coast
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cold northwesterly winds from Siberia can cause nighttime temperatures to drop below freezing
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Shanghai's parks offer some reprieve from the urban jungle
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The park has a man-made lake with a sky bridge running across the park, and offers a pleasant respite for Xujiahui shoppers
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a transport hub with the world's busiest container port.[11]
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Shanghai is a popular tourist destination renowned for its historical landmarks such as The Bund, City God Temple and Yu Garden, as well as the extensive Lujiazui skyline and major museums including the Shanghai Museum and the China Art Museum. It has been described as the "showpiece" of the booming economy of mainland China.[15][16]
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Shanghai has an extensive public transport system, largely based on metros, buses and taxis. Payment of all these public transportation tools can be made by using the Shanghai Public Transportation Card.
Shanghai's rapid transit system, the Shanghai Metro, incorporates both subway and light railway lines and extends to every core urban district as well as neighboring suburban districts.
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Shanghai also has the world's most extensive network of urban bus routes, with nearly one thousand bus lines, operated by numerous transportation companies.
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Shanghai is a major hub of China's expressway network. Many national expressways (prefixed with G) pass through or terminate in Shanghai, including G2 Beijing–Shanghai Expressway (overlapping G42 Shanghai–Chengdu), G15 Shenyang–Haikou, G40 Shanghai–Xi'an, G50 Shanghai–Chongqing, G60 Shanghai–Kunming (overlapping G92 Shanghai–Ningbo), and G1501 Shanghai Ring Expressway.
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There are bicycle lanes separate from car traffic on many surface streets, but bicycles and motorcycles are banned from most main roads including the elevated expressways.
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Shanghai has four major railway stations
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Shanghai is one of the leading air transport gateways in Asia. The city has two commercial airports: Shanghai Pudong International Airport and Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport.[88] Pudong Airport is the main international airport, while Hongqiao Airport mainly operates domestic flights with limited short-haul international flights.
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The Shanghai Disney Resort Project was approved by the government on 4 November 2009.[92] It is currently under construction. The resort is planned to be operational by 2016.[93] A $4.4 billion theme park and resort in Pudong will have a castle that will be the biggest among Disney's resorts.[94]
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Air pollution in Shanghai is low compared to other Chinese cities, but the rapid development over the past decades means it is still substantial by worldwide standards
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for the first half of the twentieth century, it is popularly seen as the birthplace of everything considered modern in China.
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"Shanghailanders".[29] In the 1920s and 1930s, a
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Adam El-TablawyShanghi
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i sits at the mouth of the Yangtze Rive
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1292 until Shanghai officially became a city for the first time in 1927, the area was designated merely as a county seat a
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ortant events helped promote Shanghai's development in the Ming Dynasty. A city wall was built for the fi
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dual party-governm
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98.8% Of Shanghai's residents are of the Han Chinese ethnicity, while 1.2% belong to various minority groups. However, the minority population has grown by 165.54% since 2000, much faster than the overall population growth.[57]
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2010 reached 82.13 years (79.82 for men and 84.44 for women)
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ity. Taoism has a presence in Shanghai in the form of several
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primary a
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ommercial airports: Shanghai Pudong International Airport and Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport.[78] Pudong Airport is the main international airport, while Hongqiao Airport mainly op
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archaeological finds since 1949. The Shanghai Art Museum, located in the former Shanghai Race Club building in the People's Square, is a major art museum holding bo
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as also the birthplace of Chinese cinema and theater. China’s first short film, The Difficult Couple (難夫難妻, Nanfu Nanqi, 1913), and the country’s first fictional fe
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ded the cheongsam and other fashions in Shanghai. However, the Shanghainese styles have seen a recent revival as stylish party dresses. The fashion industry has been rapidly revitalizing in the past dec
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in 2005 Shanghai became the world's largest cargo port
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Economic reforms in 1990 resulted in intense development and financing in Shanghai
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Shanghai is the largest center of commerce and finance in mainland China, and has been described as the "showpiece" of the world's fastest-growing major economy
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he Song Dynasty (11th century), at which time there was already a river confluence and a town with this name in the area
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There are disputes as to how the name should be interpreted, but official local histories have consistently said that it means "the upper reaches of the sea"
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A city wall was built in AD 1553, which is generally accepted as the start of the city of Shanghai
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The Shanghai Museum of art and history has one of the best collections of Chinese historical artefacts in the world, including important archaeological finds since 1949.
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