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Yu Garden |
Yu Garden is located at the heart of Old Town, a few blocks southwest of the Bund in downtown Shanghai. It is one of China's loveliest private classical gardens. Its name means Garden of Contentment, and it is indeed a pastoral world apart from modern and hectic Shanghai. |
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The Bund |
The Bund (which means the Embankment) refers to Shanghai's famous waterfront running along the west shore of the 114-kilometer Huangpu River (a tributary of Yangtze River), forming the eastern boundary of old downtown Shanghai. |
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Shanghai Museum |
First established in 1952 and relocated in 1996, the Shanghai Museum has a collection of more than 120,000 rare cultural pieces including bronze artifacts, ceramics, calligraphy, paintings, lacquer wares, oracle bone inscriptions and coins. |
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Jade Buddha Temple |
Jade Buddha Temple is the Shanghai's most popular temple with visitors, the Jade Buddha complex has an exceedingly short history, having been completed in 1918. The temple also runs a good vegetarian restaurant. |
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Oriental Pearl TV Tower |
The 468-meter-high Tower, which is the highest in Asia and the third highest trailing 553.33-meter-high Toronto Tower Canada, and 533 meters high TV Tower in Moscow, Russia in the world, was put into construction in 1991 and completed in 1993. |
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Nanjing Road |
Nanjing Road in Shanghai, the so-called No.1 shopping street on the Chinese mainland, is being developed over the next 10 years into a world-class commercial destination. About 18 billion yuan (US$2.17 billion) of Shanghai investment will be fed into the ambitious project. |
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Zhujiajiao – an ancient water town |
About 50 kilometers away from the city centre, Zhujiaojia features beautiful waterways, arched stone bridges, ancient streets paved with stone, and more than 10,000 houses dating back to Ming and Qing dynasties. |
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