On little more history:
The worlds greatest houses of finance and commerce descended on Shanghai in the 1930. The place has the tallest buildings in Asia.
And more motor vehicles on its street than the rest of China put together. Shanghai became a byword for exploitation and vice, with its countless opium dens, gambling joints and brothels. Guarding it all were the American,French and Italian marines British Tommies and Japanese bluejackets. In 1949 the communist put the foot down and began eradicating slums. Rehabilitating hundreds of thousands of opium addicts and stamping out child and slave lab our. For the West, the Shanghai party was over. By the 1990s the wheel had turned full circle. Invitations went out again to Capitalize business interest as the central government hunted foreign capital to help reinvent this whirlwind metropolis and met with some success. By the mid 1990s more than half the worlds high rise cranes were looming over Shanghai. Today the city continues to grow, with new underground subway stations, highways crisis crossing the city, the most modern stock exchange in the world, a swish new airport, two giant bridges and a whole new city in Pudong. Perhaps no city in the world is as futurists, and Shanghai has become the very symbol of China's rise to economic powerhouse status. It thought that Shanghai will overtake Honk Kong as an industrial and financial capital within one or two decades. However despite the growth and international investment poverty is still prevalent. Shanghai is one of the worlds greatest cities, with a colorful past, a frenetic present and a future that will see it eventually back on top of the world as a major international financial and trading center. The city, whose name literally means "on the sea" is located on the East China Coast just south of the mouth of the Yangtze River. Shanghai, like the rest of China, is 8th hours ahead of GMT. Total population is around 15 million of which 8 million live in the city. Canada has around 40 million ALL ACROSS CANADA. They also have a floating population numbering 2 million of itinerant workers.
Shanghai is China's largest city, its largest port, and its largest industrial base. It has the best shops and restaurants in the country and the most fashionable people. It is called "the dragon head" of East China, the leading force driving the economy forward.
So today we left the ship at 7:00 am and walked for miles to see the last of what we had planned. The city is by far my favorite.
Lots of people doing Tai Chi
These ladies like to use fans
And they like to use a stick
Me getting involved
Bob trying to pull teeth.
So our day was fantastic even thou it was cut to short. We had to be back on board by 11:30. For ANOTHER Mandatory Guest Lifeboat
Drill. Think this makes 8 or 9... Sail away 1pm
And it's onto CHEJU South Korea. No plans and no research I've done so we are going just to wing it.......thanks for coming along.
Leslee & Bob
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