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The Shanghai Scoop:

• Shanghai is called Hu for short
• Serves as the most influential economic, financial, international trade, cultural, science and technology center in East China
• Shanghai is located on the east tip of Yangtze River Delta
• Shanghai has some offshore islands, such as Dajinshan Island, Xiaojinshan Island and Fushan Island
• The Bund has been an important financial area and is referred as the ‘Oriental Wall Street’
• The Bund is one of the most recognizable architectural symbols of Shanghai.  The word ‘bund’ derives from an Anglo-Indian word for an embankment along a muddy waterfront and that is what it was in the beginning, when the first British company opened an office there in 1846

• Yuyuan Garden is believed to have been built in the Ming Dynasty, more than 400 years ago.
• Jade Buddha Temple in Shanghai is an active temple, with 70 resident monks who can be seen worshiping. The temple was built between 1911 and 1918 in the style of the Song Dynasty (960-1279)
• Shanghai Old Street is an ideal place to discover what Shanghai was like in the old days. Fangbin Road, aka. “Shanghai Old Street” is adjacent to Yuyuan Garden
• The Jin Mao Building symbolizes  Shanghai emerging into the 21st century. It is the tallest building in the country and third tallest in the world; it hosts the tallest hotel ever built
• Zhujiajiao, Known as “the Venice of Shanghai”, is a well-preserved ancient town in water country in Shanghai