Largest City in China- Shanghai

As an international city, Shanghai is located on the eastern coast of China opening to everyone comes from all over the world. It's the largest city by population in the world. It's also a major financial center and the busiest port.To tourists, It is a hot place with its own Shanghai style and culture. Many historical landmarks such as The Bund, Lujiazui Skyline, City God Temple, Yuyuan Garden, 2010 World Expo, etc. are all worthwhile to visit. Today, let me take you to explore this city. 
In Shanghai, all types of transportation are available. You can take bus, subway, Maglev Train(connection between Beijing and Shanghai as well as all airports in Shanghai and the center of the city), Express Railway Train (connect Shanghai with surrounding cities and adjacent provinces),Boat (Shanghai is composed of two lands separated by Huangpu river), Express Tunnel (connect east and west Shanghai). As shown below, we took city sightseeing tour bus to see night view of Shanghai(the top left picture), subway, express railway train come to Shanghai from Suzhou City (middle right one in railway station),the boat from the Lujiazui Skyline (on the eastern bank of Huangpu River) to the Bund (on the western bank of Huangpu River)and express tunnel car (bottom left in a express car) from The Bund back to Lujiazui Skyline. If you have chance, try all these ways to go around. It's a lot of fun.

Lujiazui and the Bund are facing each other separated by Huangpu River. As I mentioned, you can take boat, tunnel express way or drive through multiple bridges to move from one side to the other. In the past 20 years, Lujiazui has become the most important financial district in China just like the Wall Street in New York. The famous spots in this area are Oriental Pearl Tower(the top corner picture), Shanghai World Financial Center (128-story landmark skyscraper), Jin Mao Building(88-story),and the Bank of China Tower. The Bund refers to the buildings and wharves as well as some adjacent areas on the center section of Zhongshan Road running along the western bank of the Hungpu River. It was initially a British settlement. At the beginning of 20th century, the Bund became a major financial hub of East Asia. There were bunch of historical buildings once used as banks and commercial trading houses by United Kingdom, the U.S., Italy, France, Russia, Germany and so on. Now, these buildings are still in use for different purposes also as the most popular attraction in Shanghai.    

Some pictures following show you some shopping and relaxing area close to the Bund (there are numerous bars and restaurants).

The City God Temple is a temple complex which is located in a traditional district of commerce in old Shanghai. There are hundreds of stores and shops (as shown in the grid below) surrounding the temple. Most of these store buildings are over century old. Here people go shopping, eating all kinds of delicious snack food (street food shown in top left pictures), or praying in the temple(as I did in two top right ones).  

The Yu Garden is an extensive Chinese Garden located beside the City God Temple. It was first built in 1559 during the Ming Dynasty as a private house garden and opened to the general in 1780. Yu Garden represents typical Shanghai style garden developed from Suzhou Garden style of China.

World Expo 2010, Shanghai was a big success. Many countries' pavilions have been torn down except for some most successful ones like Italian Pavilion, Saudi Arabia Pavilion(called Moon Boat）, Chinese Pavilion(two pictures on top left), etc as shown in below. If you are interested in new technology, concepts, innovations or art,come to visit these pavilions.The video at the end is taken in Saudi Arabia Pavilion. You can see how they showcased their ideas with high-tech.
If you are interested so far, come to experience this modern city and its different style.