1. The Bund and Lujiazui: It is no exaggeration to say that if you have not been to the Bund, you have not been to Shanghai. The dozens of buildings along the river that were built at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the last century are witnesses of Shanghai's centenary opening as a port. They have stood for nearly a hundred years with the same appearance, and their value is immeasurable even from an artistic perspective. Perhaps the legendary large pillars and exquisite murals and sculptures are not obvious to ordinary tourists, but the long row of buildings are actually integrated. The grandeur overlooking the river may be enough.

Opposite the Bund is Lujiazui. Almost all the buildings there are products of the development and opening up of Pudong. Now they have become a symbol of the new Shanghai. It seems unnecessary to climb the Oriental Pearl Tower. The Jinmao Tower is worth a closer look. Perhaps Lujiazui is the most high-end business center in Shanghai. It is densely populated with a large number of foreign-funded enterprises and Chinese and foreign financial institutions. It has the appearance of an emerging business center with rigorous planning. If you have money and time, you can also check out the newly built aquarium, but I personally don’t think it’s worth recommending.

The best way to get from the Bund to Lujiazui is to take a ferry. It is cheap and allows you to see the scenery on both sides of the river from a distance. The pier is located on Jinling Road at the southern end of the Bund. The disadvantage is that you may have to walk for a while to get to Pudong. , the sightseeing tunnel is too expensive but can go directly to the foot of the Oriental Pearl Tower.

2. Old Town God’s Temple: Foreign tourist groups usually visit the Old Town God’s Temple when they come to Shanghai. In fact, it is just a large commercial city with ancient buildings, and most of them are tourist souvenir shops and gold shops.

Of course, the name of the Old Town God’s Temple is not in vain. After all, Yuyuan Garden is the remaining well-preserved ancient garden of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the center of Shanghai. The exquisite jade that can be seen upon entering is a relic of Hua Shi Gang; the Town God’s Temple was once occupied as a shopping mall for a long time. , has been restored to its old layout and is dedicated to the City God; the Jiuqu Bridge in the center of the lake is the center of the old City God's Temple and still maintains its old appearance decades ago.

The south of the Old Town God’s Temple is adjacent to Shanghai Old Street. This is a semi-renovated and semi-reconstructed antique commercial street, but the basic store maintains its appearance before the reconstruction. From it, you can see what Shanghai’s old city looks like. To the north is the newly built Ancient City Park, from which you can walk directly to the newly opened river section of the Bund. For Shanghainese, the main attraction of this place is the small commodity center outside the mall. The center mainly for self-employed businesses gathers a variety of small commodities, which can be ordered or purchased. In addition, the specialty stores in the mall can also provide some other commercial streets. Hard-to-find items.

3. People’s Square: People’s Square has long been a political center and a location for large-scale mass activities in Shanghai. But the last large-scale mass gathering here seemed to date back to June 13 years ago. This is also the geographical center of Shanghai, and the mileage of national highways is calculated from the center of People's Square.

A new round of renovation projects is underway, and the result of the previous round of renovations was to turn People’s Square into a citizen cultural and leisure center. People's Avenue runs from east to west. In the center of the avenue is the Shanghai Municipal Government Building to the north and the Fountain Square and Museum to the south. On both sides of the municipal government building are the Shanghai Grand Theater and the Planning Exhibition Hall. There is little value in visiting them. There are green spaces on both sides of the museum. Hong Kong Street underneath the square may be regarded as Shanghai's earlier fashionable commercial street.

4. Huaihai Road Commercial Street: The younger generation in Shanghai may be more willing to go to Huaihai Road to buy fashion. Even if you are casually shopping on weekends, Huaihai Road has already replaced Nanjing East Road. Today's Huaihai Road can be said to be Shanghai's fashion street.

Huaihai Road Commercial Street generally starts from Changshu Road, where there is Meimei Department Store, which is famous for selling high-priced fashions (the commercial buildings on Nanjing West Road are comparable to it), starting from Parkson and Shaanxi Road. Starting from the two major shopping malls of Paris Printemps, you can go to the earlier Huating Isetan to the east, and further to the east you can go to Pacific Department Store, both of which are relatively famous mid-to-high-end commercial buildings in Shanghai. Generally, it ends at Tibet Road.

A large number of Shanghai’s important modern buildings and key cultural relics protection units are scattered along Huaihai Road. The more famous ones include the site of the National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Sun Yat-sen’s former residence, Jinjiang Hotel, Zhou Mansion, Lanxin Grand Theater, Xiangyang Road Orthodox Church, Mahler Residence (former Shanghai Youth League Municipal Committee), etc., and the very popular Xintiandi Close to Huaihai Road. In addition, Shaanxi Road, Shimen Road, and Yandang Road, which intersect with Huaihai Road, are all important fashion and leisure streets in Shanghai.

5. Xujiahui Business Circle: Xujiahui, like Huaihai Road, has become a fashion center for the younger generation.

Today's Xujiahui was gradually transformed with the completion of the Oriental Commercial Building. At that time, the Oriental Commercial Building attracted a large number of citizens to visit by providing unique high-end consumer goods. Subsequently, the Pacific Department Store and Huijin Department Store were built, and the renovation of the Shibailiu Store gradually gathered more and more people. It has become more and more popular, and the recently completed large shopping mall, Harbor Plaza. The two multiplex cinemas in Xujiahui, Kodak and Yongle, are major box office players in Shanghai, and they are also one of the few cinemas in China equipped with digital equipment. In addition, Bainaohui and Pacific Computer City are the main places for Shanghai residents to purchase computers. Not far north from Xujiahui is Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

There are two other places worth noting. One is the Xujiahui Catholic Church, which is the residence of the Chinese Catholic Bishop of Shanghai. Together with the Sheshan Catholic Church, it has become a representative of Shanghai’s modern outstanding religious architecture; the other is Perhaps less well-known is the tomb of Xu Guangqi, which is about two stops away from the business district. However, the tomb area is small, and only the inscriptions on both sides illustrate the special identity of the tomb owner.

When you are tired of shopping, you can take a rest in the newly built Xujiahui Park. However, I am not very satisfied with the design of Xujiahui Park, because this green space has almost completely erased two important witnesses of Shanghai’s historical development: early China. The Great China Rubber Factory, a representative of the national industry, and Lao EMI, the originator of the Chinese record industry (Zhongshang Shanghai Company, I went there three years ago and saw employees still working in the old building built in the 1930s and 1940s) Company, are now here All that is left is a chimney and a lonely small western-style building.