Dongping national forest park

Posted December 8th, 2009 by
Categories: Dongping national forest park, shanghai tourism

Located in China’s third largest island of Shanghai chongming island, beautiful, central south port (county), with 12 kilometers south of the border, the construction of the east, west, north and east farm near Shanghai, covers an area of the east China area is 54 mu, the largest artificial forest and plain of Shanghai’s famous tourist resort, Shanghai “top ten” wholesome experience of leisure and tourism.

Dongping national forest park, quiet environment, abundant vegetation, CangCuiYuDi. The towering towering trees and blue sky, the park inter-shining with a WangBiBo transitory ripples, layer upon layer of water out of the blue sky, white clouds and mapping scenery beautiful park.

Dongping forest park landscape is rich, each has his strong point. Linhu but built Dutch windmills and elegant environment, can, in blue sky, white clouds, green trees, xiang pigeons set, full of the pure and fresh, rotating blades of grass with a fragrant drift, Holland will enjoy the scenery in, Sun bathing, flat, broad green grass, clean house in the slope. Under the dauphine, and jehiel, and the South American coffee, accept the eyes, like the sun bathing in paradise. Located in the northwest bathing beach is another prospectses, tropical beach, sunshade throughout the laughter of children with ear. The white sand particles visible light, light extends to the scale of the pool, The park is home to animal forest sika deer, ostrich, monkey, HuangJi etc. Small animals to tame, lovely, yinde visitors, with great pity means playing beat.

Besides beautiful scenery, dongping national forest park also has a great deal of leisure and recreation activities. The jungle paintball field, XiaoYan fires, thrilling fight scenes, like the violent man into a real battle, experiencing a blood test of fire; play rain, The park is located in the north gyms, 14 meters high artificial rock, a main challenges to experience the successful satisfied; Barbecue is one of the features of the forest park. Barbecue area for 160 people barbecue, savour cate, enjoy the awesome.

Dongping national forest park

Dongping national forest park

Scenic tourist clew:
Tickets: 40 yuan/person
Arrived: north bus station ShenChong take bus lines, south by south east of chongming island, the nanjiang line can reach dongping national forest park.
Open time: 08:00 to 17:00
The best travel time: chun qiu three seasons for travel, temperature is appropriate, convenient barbecue repast.
Food: can the visitor center in scenic areas, restaurants, taste local self-brewing black, also can be in area buffet barbecue grill.
Accommodation: can live in the hotel, also can lodge in chongming island hotel or residence.
Note: the barbecue borrow traveling foods one-time vice, 30 yuan/oil 5 yuan, fee of $20. Barbecue food suggestion in the supermarket on own or purchasing. In the garden, can rent a bike touring, single, double, deposit 100 yuan or detain certificate, rent, 10 pieces / 50 yuan/day.

The Oriental pearl TV tower

Posted December 8th, 2009 by
Categories: shanghai tourism, The Oriental pearl TV tower

Located in Shanghai pudong lujiazui, they. Tower in Asia, the first, the tower. The Oriental pearl tower embrace modern lujiazui back across the river, and the building blocks of the kingdoms of building expo inter-shining, show the international metropolis Shanghai grand view, has become the symbol of reform and opening-up.

The Oriental pearl tower unique design style, craftsmanship. 11 sizes by air through the sphere, two like ruby red giant is high, bright sphere lonely. So full of Oriental emotional appeal, the construction characteristics, not only the achievement Oriental pearl TV tower, the appearance is also created Chinese poetry in “big bead jade plate” artistic conception.

Oriental pearl TV tower by three pillars for 9 meters in diameter, capsule, the bull sphere, sphere, the next five balls, tower and square. The internal can carry 50 double elevator and seven meters per second for high-speed elevators have only domestic. At the same time, high 263 meters, is having the spherical walkway eye grand Shanghai excellent position. 267 meters of revolving restaurant unique style, each hour is a whirl, a sense of heavenly sit, In addition, the pearl of the Orient and disco dance, piano bar and 20 meters in 271 KTV.

No, the Oriental pearl TV tower, overlooking lights on, colourful lights under the tower, to reflect the sky, and night until the lights of Shanghai together with the express “Oriental Paris” rich and open.

The Oriental pearl TV tower

The Oriental pearl TV tower

Scenic tourist clew:
Tickets: 50 yuan ($263 meters), 100 yuan (walkway three goals), Shanghai museum of history 20 yuan (us $100 to buy tickets to the Oriental pearl, can visit).
The way to Shanghai no.2 metro line 3 line, bus, 81, 82, 85, 870 etc all can reach. The road,
Open time: 08:00 to 21
The best travel time, within four seasons: choose clear up to date, can enjoy Shanghai grand view.

Jinmao tower in Shanghai 88 floors walkway

Posted December 3rd, 2009 by
Categories: Jinmao tower, shanghai tourism

Jinmao tower in Shanghai pudong lujiazui finance &trade zone, and the famous bund scenic area of pearl river in Shanghai, China, the foreign trade center Co., LTD. Invested and management, the Chicago SOM architecture design firm, total height is $420.5 meters, is the world’s third, China’s tallest, covers an area of 2.3 million square meters, ground 88 floors, underground layer 3 podium, 6 layers, with a total construction area of 29 million square meters. Jinmao tower has offices, grand hyatt, walkway, etc. Jinmao tower in modern style, and have both national style, the Shanghai towards the 21st century’s a landmark.

Article 88 floors walkway jinmao tower, height is 340.1 meters, the area is 1520 square meters, is now the largest walkway. Walkway decorate luxurious, imported natural marble, metope is only 3 millimeter; material thickness, Glass curtain wall, broadminded, overlooking the huangpu river, the cross-strait pinglan urban landscape and the magnificent at kethleen ‘s5 river. Two metres per second operation to lift and 9.1 only 45 seconds can be tourists from underground to 88 floors walkway. Here, you can enjoy the wonderful light and sun, and changing the blue sky and white clouds friendly handshake.

Shanghai Jinmao tower

Shanghai Jinmao tower

Address: century avenue. 2
Telephone: 50470088
Open time: 8-21
Tickets: 50 yuan, children’s 25 yuan, students at 25 yuan, student id (88 floors walkway)
Transportation: the metro line 2, bus lines 81, 82, 870, 871, 872, tunnel three, four, five, six lines, etc

Shanghai bund buildings

Posted December 3rd, 2009 by
Categories: Uncategorized

150 years ago, when the colonists on Shanghai this strange land, when he saw the huangpu river JiangTan. So, this article was forced to step out of the filament. After more than 100 years of construction, high-rise and pedestrians. These classical and modern socialist construction, has become the coexistence of the symbol of Shanghai.

Shanghai bund buildings

Shanghai bund buildings

The essence of the bund is called the “universal building these complex.” bund bolan Suzhou river north on the south, east BaiDuQiao jinling stretches approximately 1,500 meters. The famous Chinese bank building and the peace hotel, customs house, bank building emersion the former east “Wall Street” style, the building is not same stylist, also not in the same period, but their buildings, but the underlying unity tone contours of coordination with astonishing. Whether far garden, or feel a vigorous and graceful, vigorous, showily.

Someone said “bund of Shanghai is the story.” The bund that place of reinforced concrete building, is the story of the old Shanghai dream memories.

The history of Shanghai baoshan

Posted November 27th, 2009 by
Categories: Shanghai, Shanghai baoshan

Baoshan, due to its name. 1412 years (Ming yongle decade), the territory has built a pile with artificial seen heaped-up mountains, as in Yangtze estuary maritime symbol for the emperor yongle, ship navigation, the factory. The mountain in 1582 (Ming dynasty years), but not in its slump is still used today.

Baoshan, jiangsu, of the original 1724 (qing yongzheng years), from the jiading county of baoshan county. When XianJing, build county, east, north to south of Yangtze river, yet zhabei tianmu road, west to the border (jiading, Yang, southeast and east (huangpu river area, gaoqiao, such as southwest to a long, wide 38 kilometers 41.5 kilometers, the area is 419 square kilometers. In 1928 (17 years), YanHang zhabei, jiangwan, PengPu, really, wu song, such as, takahashi 7, Shanghai municipal, especially under half of mortals. In 1937 (26) during the Anti-Japanese War, after all, Wen algae under Shanghai baoshan district, north to syncretization syncretization belong to downtown district (south) and Shanghai north, jiangwan changxing to pudong north. After the victory in the Anti-Japanese War, except under Shanghai big games, the system, according to prewar in jiangsu province, an area of about 200 square kilometers. After liberation, beginning of jiangsu province, jiangsu region Li after.

In 1958, the Shanghai all non-eu island and the north suburbs into south east, arise, east to the east coast of the island, south road, west to the wide and landed in dalian, a pool of jiangwan YanHang, before the big games, and return wusong baoshan area expanded to 443.64 square kilometers. 1960 the algae and Wen evoke wusong south road sides established syncretization wusong district, 1964 wusong district into the yangpu district. Since 1980, baosteel, because in the construction of Shanghai municipal people’s government, baosteel, based on the regional offices established wusong district again, baosteel regional offices under the jurisdiction of the administrative area and baoshan county town, and baosteel residences with the area between wusong wusong district under the jurisdiction of residences (i.e., south, and wusong temple, etc. ChengQiao, part of the village. In 1984, a central area, two town and wujiaochang jiangwan southern part of rural be hongkou, yangpu putuo district, etc, zhabei.

Since the reform and opening, baoshan the comprehensive economic strength increasing. The article introduce foreign built by the area of XianLu elevated road project has been completed in 1998. The Shanghai baoshan district to by 1 elevated light rail of Shanghai rail transit line 3 (phase) and outer pearl, baoshan’s economic boom has laid a solid foundation.

Flowers legend

Posted November 27th, 2009 by
Categories: Flowers legend, Shanghai

The legend about the shape, with the traditional Chinese folk tale colour.

The story is in a long time ago lived in the mountains, the elder sister call three sisters and two elder sister call red yulan magnolia, three elder sister call HuangYuLan.

One day they play down but found village smoke, cold autumn ausgestorben, three sisters astonished, to the village people know, qin shihuang after interrogated for reclamation, drive mountain, killing lobster princess, dragon became his enemy with zhangjiajie lures, dragon locked salt, don’t let zhangjiajie people eat salt, finally led to the plague, so many people died. The three sisters very pity them, then decided to help everyone for salt.

However this how easily?

At times, a dragon after three sisters had refused to guard the crab from salt, made by his general aromas of general fan poured crab, will cut wear, put salt storehouse of yandu dipped into the sea all.

The village man saved, three sisters are dragon became a flower. Later, they will have to commemorate the plumaria trees called “shape”, but they made their sweet also became the fragrance.

Story is very simple, is also very beautiful, but also reflects people’s pursuit of good things about the perfect and yearning.

Longhua temple legends

Posted November 18th, 2009 by
Categories: Longhua temple legends, Shanghai

In The Three Kingdoms period, from western kingdoms in the prime minister has a single name. He doesn’t love riches and honour, gentle, resolves the house lavishly the monk said, “KangSengHui”, KangSengHui adhering to the Buddha, the dharma to expanding, and he swam in Shanghai, suzhou area. One day, to see here, longhua quietude, dust that is correct, no spiritual treasure block, right here and world. He doesn’t know the scenery here is uncommon, quiet in the wide ze dragon built dragon. Wide ze a monk saw a dragon, heart very unhappy. For evil, to the wind unroofed the monk fog, the monk was scarce, the grass. But suddenly find grass dragon emit a hair on the world, have colored clouds, the dragon was alarmed, and he looked, and behold KangSengHui near look intently, playing seat chanting. Dragon listening for a moment, the Buddha was read by decree, he not only has dismissed the original evil, also went up to KangSengHui said his return to the east, dragon palace, to build up KangSengHui brahman yu. KangSengHui accepted the dragon, he took his dragon temple, also ChengLongHua reconstruction to nanjing visited sun wu monarch, please ask him to help build pagodas, good for oneself to Buddha. So, in longhua temple built in 13 stupa and placed 13 Buddha.

Allegedly, the “KangSengHui” also do a piece of Shanghai and surrounding areas, the profound influence in longhua temple is located nearby church “, “Shanghai born from the Indian spread over the impart of sugar, will benefit the local people.

Shanghai longhua temple

Posted November 18th, 2009 by
Categories: Shanghai, Shanghai longhua temple

Longhua temple is located at Shanghai xuhui district of Shanghai, is LongHuaZhen the oldest and largest of the monastery. Legend longhua temple was built in three kingdoms, the prince for her sun, years.over has a history of over 1,700, existing of qing dynasty, temple for reconstruction. Now the longhua temple had become with ancient temples, pagodas, longhua temple fair, the bells of religious longhua tourist resort.

Longhua temple, a majestic scenery quiet, splendid hook, solemn dignified style. Inside the temple palace neat, rational layout, the main building has: the clock tower, gulou, maitreya temple, TianWangDian Ursa major palace, three temples, etc. The first house as the center of the house, the house maitreya with maitreya bodhisattva. Here the maitreya like and other temples, Chinese dynasties is the puppet monk (name) image, fellowship, his chest laugh, The second house for TianWangDian, height is four meters on both sides of the house as the four major Kings, and the strict attitude round. And the other temples TianWangDian different is, there is a heaven with coronary maitreya, The third house for higher daxiong baodian, located inside the temple is the main. JinShen enshrined in the three honour temple “three”. The covering the Buddha is Vishnu Lou, say again FaShen Buddha. The manjusri bodhisattva, top “is either on the lion, five, wisdom, brave. Samantabhadra bodhisattva, right is riding elephants, show exalted. During the Ming dynasty also display a fourteen years (1586) molten temple bells.

Inside the temple tower hung over there is a clear guangxu twenty years (1894), casting qinglong 3-ton bell made about two meters tall and weigh up to 13,000 jins. At the end of each year, there will be new “into” activity, longhua bells attracted a lot of visitors.

podong national development strategy

Posted November 11th, 2009 by
Categories: Shanghai, Shanghai pudong

In 1980, October 3, jiefang daily headlines article published ten first and the bottom five and said?  The total industrial output: first, the strong eight-finals, Total exports accounted for the quarter, including the product 60%, exchange, first in China, The total revenue of the state, the central taxes andprofits over one-third of the fiscal expenditure, over the first in China,… , But Shanghai urban population density, per capita roads area at least, the highest proportion QueFangHu… Unleashed a in Shanghai, this essay reported by backlash, remittent of Shanghai, the revitalization of Shanghai is getting louder. In order to find a new direction of development of Shanghai, from the 1980s, Shanghai pudong), they moved eastward (from the south (jinshan petrochemical as the core, the north (south) and baoshan area, wusong jiangwan) in a different direction, thorough research,
In the 1980s, the mayor of Shanghai pudong, put forward the development of arats get municipal party committee and the city government leaders agree, Shanghai ideas began to focus on developing pudong reverse-an eastern, become the consensus, and ideas from the first consider as Shanghai pudong downtown, the diffusion of industry of Shanghai construction was transferred to the “four core center” .

In 1990, 28 March to April 7th, vice premier of the state council in accordance with the woodland, yao in pudong, and carry out special research formed the rapid development of pudong Shanghai several problems about the report outline. Only 11 days of April 18, the premier of the state council in Shanghai Volkswagen li peng the ceremony announced that the Chinese government decided to development and pudong.

Then, according to the Shanghai municipal party committee and the city government, formulate the strategy of “the development of pudong, Shanghai, China’s development, facing the world”.

In 2005, the state council approval pudong on the national synthetically reform pilot, municipal party committee and the city government, a “clear” three function (in establishing and implementing scientific development view, constructing the socialist harmonious society, the implementation of the “four center construction of national strategic role play demonstrative leading to become the first try to advance reform and opening-up, independent innovation demonstration area, modern service industry leading core gathering area), marks pudong reform and opening-up entered a new stage. Careful planning, 16 years in 16 years solid steps, under the leadership of the party central committee and the state council, and in the strength of provinces and cities nationwide various ministries, support, the development of pudong open have made remarkable achievements, establish a modernized multifunctional, extroverted, the new framework, pudong has become “China’s reform and opening the window” and “Shanghai the epitome of modernization.

Shanghai pudong

Posted November 11th, 2009 by
Categories: Shanghai pudong

Shanghai pudong, also called pudong (to be) the earliest history chuansha northern-southern dynasties can be traced back to the beam of datong, then reign (535) with kunshan county, belonging to Lutheran county, Ancient chuansha is having its journey, the 2006 TangTianBao years (127) of huating county, At $twenty-nine years ($1292), Shanghai county, Qing yongzheng years after Li points (1725) and Shanghai nanhui two county, Jiaqing fifteen years (1810) started by Shanghai nanhui county, two people have a stroke, chuansha hall, The revolution of 1911 (1911) change for county, jiangsu province zhili hall, 1950 by the nanhui delimit 29 township, In 1958, the change from a chuansha in jiangsu province of Shanghai jurisdiction, Founded in 1961, only two years of pudong county rural areas, and all delimit chuansha along the huangpu river side of danzhou-tunchang yangpu district high temple, Along the huangpu river in 1984 to the yankees, who TangQiao lujiazui, Shanghai huangpu area of the house, and ranks as crossing the river region to Yang danzhou-tunchang nanshi district. To XianJing 1985 before the founding of the area has twice. In 1990, the CPC central committee and the state council decision development of pudong new area in pudong, 1993, the county administrative revocation, chuansha system will also be put under the NaShi, huangpu, yangpu district and township of minhang sanlin back, pudong new area. 2009, in order to further strengthen the financial, shipping two center construction, the administrative area of pudong new area delimit nanhui area.