Shanghai is the largest city in China in terms of population and one of the largest urban areas in the world, with over 20 million people in its extended metropolitan area.[6] Located on China's central eastern coast at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the city is administered as a municipality with province-level status.From fishing village to super-city in 50 years, then forgotten by the world until its revival began in the early '90s, Shanghai’s history is one of boom and bust. Now it’s making a major comeback, and it’s an amazing spectacle. Buildings go up (and down) overnight, traffic seems to double every week and the whole city buzzes. Encapsulating this is Lujiazui. On the eastern bank of the Huangpu River, known as Pudong, (the old city is on the west, Puxi) this is China’s Manhattan. |
