The Bund

For many, the Bund (Waitan to the locals) is the face of Shanghai. Even as the city transforms itself, growing upwards and outwards at a tremendous rate, the Bund's Art Deco and Neoclassical facades appear much as they did during Shanghai's previous heyday as China's most international city, way back in the 1920s and '30s. Of course, the surroundings have changed radically since then.

Shanghai Grand Theatre

Shanghai Grand Theatre occupies an area of 11528 square meters. The total floor space is 70000square meters with 8 groud floors and 2 underground levels. The total height of the building is 40 meters. There are 3 theatres in Shanghai Grand Theatre: a 1800-seat main theatre for ballet, opera and symphony; a 550-seat medium theatre for Chinese opera and chamber music; and 250-seat small one for dram.

Shanghai Guyi Garden

To the east of the town there stands the Guyi(Ancient Beauty) Garden, an ancient garden built in mid-16th century. The White Crane Pavilion, the Plum Blossom Hall and other structures in the garden all bear the Ming Dynasty characteristics. Adorned with greenery, the garden presents an attractive scenery wherever travelers go. The most interesting cultural relics in the garden are two octagonal stone pillars in grey color erected in the middle of 9th century which are inscribed with the statues of four heavenly kings of Buddhism. The pillars are the best preserved in Shanghai.

Longhua Tourist City

Located in the southern part of Shanghai, the Longhua Tourist City is built around Longhua Temple and together with Longhua Martyrs’ Cemetery. It occupies an area of 31.17 hectares. The buildings in the tourist city are reproductions of the architecture of folk dwellings south of the Changjiang River, with black tiles and white-washed walls, covered corridors around the Longhua Pagoda, little alleyways and winding paths.

Oriental Pearl TV Tower

Rising above the Huangpu River and Pudong skyline like something out of an old science fiction flick, the Oriental Pearl Tower holds a special place in Shanghai's recent history. Before the early 1990s, the east bank of the Huangpu was a low-rise jumble of warehouses and muddy settlements. The erection of the tower, completed in 1995, served as a symbolic declaration of Shanghai's future-forward orientation and grand ambition.

Nanjing Road

When people mention Shanghai's Nanjing Road, they're probably talking about Nanjing Dong Lu (East Nanjing Road), a pedestrian shopping street running for blocks between the northeast corner of People's Square and the Bund. If you spend more than a couple days in Shanghai, you'll likely end up pushing your way through the crowds beneath the neon signs and signature Shanghai mix of brand-new high rises and late colonial-period architecture. The shopping is varied and good, though lacking the upscale brand-name cachet of Huaihai Zhong Lu or Xintiandi on one hand or the bargain-basement prices of "fakes" markets like the one at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum subway station on the other.

Yu Garden

Yuyuan (Yu Gardens) is a classical oasis—albeit a generally crowded one—in Shanghai's relentlessly modernizing cityscape. The gardens, completed in 1577 by the aristocratic Ming Dynasty Pan family, retain their original grace and elegance even in the face of throngs of tourists and the commercial hubbub of Yu Bazaar just on the other side of the garden walls.

Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Museum is one of the four big museums in China, with an exhibition area of 12,000 square meters, including 12 special exhibition rooms and 120,000 pieces of treasures such as bronze ware, chinaware, calligraphy, painting and various other types, among which bronze ware, chinaware, calligraphy and painting are the most characteristic of all. The building of Shanghai Museum is round on the top and square in the foundation, symbolizing the ancient Chinese saying that "the sky is round and the earth is square". Seen from afar, the whole building resembles an ancient bronze ware.