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I plan to go to Shanghai on May Day. Can you introduce some places worth visiting?

Introduction to Shanghai tourist attractions

Attraction 1

The construction of the Oriental Pearl Tower started on July 30, 1991 and was completed on October 1, 1994. The tower is 468 meters high and faces the "Architectural Expo Group of All Nations" on the Bund across the river. It is ranked the tallest tower in Asia and the third tallest tower in the world. The designer fancifully connected 11 spheres of different sizes and staggered heights from the blue sky to the lush green grass. Two huge spheres as bright as rubies were held up high, making the entire building completely transparent. As a whole, it creates the artistic conception of "big beads and small beads falling on the jade plate".

Tickets: 50, 70, 85, 100 yuan. Address: No. 1 Century Avenue, Pudong No. 1 Century Avenue, Pudong

Tel: 58791888

Business hours: 8:00 - 21:30

Transportation: Mingzhu Bus 870, 871, 872, bus 81, 82, tunnel lines 3, 4, 5, and 6, ferry Lujin Line, Taigong Line

Attraction 2

Shanghai International Conference The center is located on Binjiang Avenue in Pudong, across the river from the Bund. Together with the Oriental Pearl Tower, it forms a famous landscape in the Little Lujiazui area. The Shanghai International Convention Center has a total construction area of ??110,000 square meters. It has the most modern conference venues, a 4,300 square meter multi-functional hall, a 3,600 square meter press center, and nearly 30 conference halls and venues of various sizes, which can fully meet the needs of To meet the needs of various conferences, the center also has a variety of luxurious hotel rooms, high-end dining facilities and comfortable leisure venues. In 2001, it was one of the main venues for the APEC meeting, which made it even more mysterious for tourists.

Ticket: 50 yuan/person

Address: No. 2727 Binjiang Avenue

Telephone: 50370000, 45338543

Business hours: 8 :30-16:30

Transportation lines: Metro Line 2, buses 85, 82, 81, etc.

Attraction Three

Binjiang Avenue adopts a hierarchical design With a three-dimensional design, on the top of the slope covered with flowers and green grass, people can stand on a relatively spacious platform and have a panoramic view of the extraordinary beauty of the Puxi Bund. In the Fudu World section of Binjiang Avenue, a yacht pier converted from an old pier is unique and interesting. An eye-catching huge iron anchor has been erected on the pier and several cable piles have been built. Colored lights are installed in the huge fountain consisting of more than a hundred water sprinkler heads, which shine brightly in the night.

Address: No. 1, Lujiazui Road

Telephone: 58875487

Attraction 4

A center covering an area of ??100,000 square meters in the central green space of Lujiazui The green space is located at the exit of Yan'an East Road Tunnel, in the core of Lujiazui Financial Center District, and is the largest open lawn in Shanghai. The main mast of the landscape canopy on the lakeside is 28 meters high. The canopy is shaped like a white conch and looks like a sail, giving people unlimited reverie. Greenland imported a statue with the theme of "Spring", which is composed of 8 blooming steel structure "flowers". The road winding in the green space outlines the pattern of Shanghai's white magnolia flowers, which is like a Shanghai city logo. In the middle of the white magnolia is an 8,600-square-meter central lake, designed in the shape of a Pudong map panel. The turf area of ??Lujiazui Green Space is 65,000 square meters, some of which are cool-season grasses introduced from Europe, which are evergreen all year round. The center and north of the green space are dotted with weeping willows, magnolias, ginkgo, cedar and other flowers, shrubs and trees, full of life and vitality.

Address: No. 160, Lujiazui Road, Pudong New District

Business hours: 8:30 - 22:00

Transportation lines: Lujiazui Station of Metro Line 2, 81 , 82, 574, 581, 980, tunnel lines 3, 4, 5, and 6, tourist line 3

Attraction 5

Jinmao Tower is located in Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone, Pudong New Area, Shanghai Prime location, across the river from the famous Bund Scenic Area.

Jin Mao Tower is invested, constructed and managed by Shanghai Foreign Trade Center Co., Ltd. of China and designed by SOM Architectural Firm of Chicago, USA. With a total height of 420.5 meters, Jin Mao Tower is currently the third tallest building in the world and the tallest building in China. It covers an area of ??23,000 square meters, with 88 floors above ground, 3 floors underground, and a 6-story podium, with a total construction area of ??29 square meters. There are office buildings, Jinmao Hyatt Hotel, sightseeing hall and so on in the building. Jin Mao Tower has both modern style and national style. It can be called a landmark building in Shanghai heading into the 21st century. Tickets for the 88th floor sightseeing hall: 50 yuan (25 yuan for students).

No. 2 Century Avenue, Pudong

Telephone: 50475101

Business hours: 8:30 - 21:00

Attraction 6

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Century Avenue starts from the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in the west and ends at Century Park in the east, with a total length of 5 kilometers. It is the first landscape road in China. The total width of Century Avenue is 100 meters, including a 31-meter two-way main motor vehicle lane with six fast and two slow speeds and 6-meter-wide auxiliary motor vehicle lanes on both sides. There is a green isolation belt between the main road and the auxiliary roads. The landscape design of Century Avenue adopts an asymmetric cross-section form. Eight recreational parks are arranged on the sidewalk on the north side of the avenue; two sculpture squares, leisure sketches, art galleries, etc. are set up at the intersection of Laoshan Road West and Yanggao Road. Century Avenue has now become a rare sight in Shanghai.

Transportation lines: Bus No. 794, 788, Metro Line 2, ZX Nanyang Line, Shen 3 Line, Tunnel Line 4

Attraction 7

Pudong International The airport is located in the coastal zone of Jiangzhen Township and Shiwan Township in Pudong New Area and Zhuqiao Township in Nanhui County. It covers an area of ??about 32 square kilometers. The site is about 30 kilometers away from the People's Square in the city center and about 30 kilometers from Hongqiao Airport. 40 kilometers. The first phase of the airport project, with an investment of 12 billion yuan, was completed and put into operation by the end of 1999. The airport can take off and land any type of large aircraft in the world. The second phase of the project aims to build a 4,000-meter runway in 2005, with an annual passenger throughput of 20 million passengers and a cargo throughput of 750,000 tons. According to planning requirements, a passenger terminal of 800,000 square meters will also be built. , 4 north-south runways suitable for the largest aircraft takeoffs and landings in the world today. The final scale is determined to have an annual throughput of 70 million passengers and an annual cargo throughput of 5 million tons.

Airport Line 1: Hongqiao Airport to Pudong Airport: 30 yuan

Airport Line 2: Shanghai Exhibition Hall Gate 7 to Pudong Airport: 19 Yuan

Airport Line 3: Yangtze River Hotel, Xujiahui, Zhangjiang, Longyang Road, Pudong Airport: 3-20 yuan

Airport Line 4: Dongjiangwan Road, Dabaishu, Wujiaochang, Deping Road, Pudong Airport: 2-18 Yuan

Airport Line 5: Railway Station, Dongfang Hospital, Pudong Airport: 2-18 Yuan

Airport Line 6: Zhongshan Park (subway entrance), Jing'an Temple, Shimen Road, Dongfang Hospital, Purple Mountain Hotel, Zhangjiang, Pudong Airport: 2-20 yuan

Address: No. 100, Weiyi Road, Jiangzhen, Pudong New District

Attraction 8

The Bund Scenic Area

Address: Zhongshan East 1st Road

Business hours: Summer: 19:00 - 22:00 Winter: 19:00 - 21:00

Transportation Route: Bus 20, 22, 37, 55, 65, 42, 126, 123, 135, 145, 401

Attraction 9

The Huangpu River Observation Deck is built from Huangpu Park to The total length of Xinkai River on the Pujiang River is about 1,700 meters. The sightseeing platform is actually built on a hollow box-type flood control wall extending to the Pujiang River. An observation deck is built on top of the empty box. Its floor is paved with 140,000 colored floor tiles and granite. The sightseeing deck faces the river and has 32 semicircular flower-decorated iron railing viewing balconies and 64 column-style square lights. . There are also 21 bowl-shaped flower beds, cylindrical square pavilions and hexagonal pavilions on the observation deck, as well as artificial marble chairs of various shapes for tourists to rest. On the west side of the sightseeing platform, there is an evergreen green belt that forms the green railing of the sightseeing platform, which not only ensures the safety of tourists, but also makes them pleasing to the eye.

Address: The Bund

Attraction 10

In the 1990s, the Bund completed the relocation of the flood control wall and comprehensive transportation reconstruction, and carried out large-scale greening. The Bund green belt consists of viewing platform greening (the roof of the flood control wall gallery) and ground greening. These two parts of greening are displayed at different levels respectively. The greening level of the viewing platform is 6.9 meters, and the greening level of the ground is 4.7 meters and 3.5 meters respectively, forming a stepped greening landscape.

Attraction 11

The Bund Sightseeing Tunnel is located in a diamond area of ??Shanghai. The Puxi entrance is located on the north side of Chenyi Plaza on the Bund, and the Pudong entrance is located on the south side of the International Convention Center, next to the Oriental Pearl Tower. The total length of the tunnel is 646.7 meters. The inner wall of the tunnel is constantly changing with various strange colors created by high-tech means, including yellow starfish, pink flowers, geometric patterns of different shapes, and various vibrant earth creatures. The power of life is pulsating and inspiring. The passenger transport system for this dreamy journey uses the unmanned, environmentally friendly SK carriage introduced from France. The silver-white, fully transparent carriage has a wide field of vision, and at the same time, the 6-channel high-fidelity sound system in the carriage delivers The combination of music and sound effects with the changing landscape in front of you creates an immersive and shocking experience.

Fare: One-way 20/person, round-trip 30/person

Address: No. 300, The Bund, Zhongshan East 1st Road (Puxi) No. 2789, Binjiang Avenue (Pudong)

Tel: 58886000

E-mail: Jiyy@public8.sta.not.cn

Business hours: 9:00-21:30

Transportation Lines: 82, 85, 583, 872, 65, 55, 21, 37, Metro Line 2, etc.

Attraction 12

The weather signal station is one of the landmark buildings on the Bund , listed as a nationally protected building. In 1884, the Xujiahui Observatory, founded by the French Catholic Church, set up a weather signal station on the "Yangjingbang" Bund (now the Bund of Yan'an East Road). The signal station was a long wooden pole standing vertically on the ground. According to the weather information from the observatory, . In 1907, the cylindrical weather signal was rebuilt with a height of 50 meters and a tower height of 36.8 meters. It was known as the "Atonuba" style building. In order to protect this building, during the Bund reconstruction project in 1993, it was moved 20 meters eastward. The second floor is now a nostalgic time bar.

The Bund Signal Station Address: No. 1A, Zhongshan East 2nd Road

Tel: 63216542

Transportation lines: Bus 251, 123, 135, 307, 317, 503, 576, 868, 940, 71, 55, 910, 42, 127

Attraction Thirteen

The Asia Building is located on the first floor of the Bund on Zhongshan 1st Road - the Asia Building was built in In 1906, it was originally named McPone Building. It is 8 stories high, with a construction area of ??11,984 square meters and an area of ??1,739 square meters. The building's exterior has an eclectic style. The facade has three sections horizontally and three sections vertically. The bottom and upper sections are both in Baroque style, while the middle section is in modernist architectural style. The building is majestic, simple yet grand. It can be said that simplicity and complexity are harmonious, luxurious and elegant. The building was designated as a cultural relic protection unit in Shanghai in 1989. The building is now China Pacific Insurance Company.

Address: No. 1, Zhongshan East 1st Road

Telephone: 63232488

Transportation lines: Bus 251, 123, 135, 307, 317, 503, 576, 868 , Route 940

Sights 14

Shanghai Club, also known as the British Club, has a late-Renaissance style building appearance. The exterior walls are made of stone except for the legs and columns. Outside, they are all made of cement imitation stone walls. There are TUSCAN columns at the entrance, and Ionic-style classical columns running through the two floors in the middle five rooms on the second and third floors. Some local treatments have Baroque characteristics.

The interior design of this building was completed by another architect, Japanese Kikutaro Shimoda. It has a bar counter that is 110 feet (33.5 meters) long and is called the longest bar counter in the Far East. It has attracted countless customers.

Address: No. 3, Zhongshan East 1st Road

Transportation lines: Bus 251, 123, 135, 307, 317, 503, 576, 868, 940

Attraction 15

The Youli Building located at No. 4 Zhongshan 1st Road is now Singapore Giti Private Investment Co., Ltd. Formerly known as the Union Building, it was owned by the U.S. Bank of America, so it was called the Union Building. The building was built in 1916, with a height of 7 floors and the entire building imitates the Renaissance architectural style. The window frames mostly adopt the rotating patterns of Baroque art. The doors are decorated with Ionic columns. The tall floor-to-ceiling windows are not only good for lighting, but also add to the momentum of the building. The entire building is an axially symmetrical figure with the door as the center. Therefore, it gives people a peaceful feeling.

Address: No. 4, Zhongshan East 1st Road

Transportation lines: Bus 251, 123, 135, 307, 317, 503, 576, 868, 940

Attraction 16

The Nissin Building, which combines modern Japanese Western architecture with classical architectural styles, is known as the "Japanese-Jewish style". The building was built by a joint venture between Nippon Seiki Kisen Co., Ltd. and the Jews. It was built in 1925 and is located at No. 5, Zhongshan East 1st Road. It has 6 floors and covers an area of ??1,280 square meters. The decoration on the bottom three floors is relatively simple, and the upper three floors have classical columns and carved floral decorations, which have a strong sense of concavity and convexity. The entire building facade is made of granite, which complements other buildings on the Bund. The Nissin Building is currently used by Huaxia Bank and Jindu Industrial Corporation.

Address: Huangpu

Attraction Seventeen

In 1906, the Commercial Bank of China opened its first bank with self-raised funds at No. 6 Zhongshan 1st Road, Shanghai. The bank, China Commercial Bank, is now the seat of Hong Kong Parkview International Enterprise Co., Ltd. The building is a false four-story Gothic building. The fourth floor of the building has five spire levels and originally there was a cross. There are small minarets on the third and fourth floors. The fourth floor of the building has pointed-shaped windows, and the first and second floors have typical Gothic-style stained glass windows. The significance of this European-style building, which is about to pass a century, goes beyond its historical and artistic qualities. It can be said that it marked the first page in China's financial history.

Address: Huangpu

Sights Eighteen

Qichang Yangxing, as the first new steamship enterprise operated by China, China Merchants Bureau was founded during this period of. The China Merchants Bureau was built in 1901. The building is a three-story brick and wood structure facing west to east. The main door frame on the ground floor extends outwards. There are tall arched floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides of the main door. The second and third floor facades are decorated with classical columns. Part of the exterior wall of the building is clad with granite. The China Merchants Building can be regarded as a typical example of Bund architecture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Whether it is historical or artistic, it is worth visiting. The Steamship Merchants Building now houses the Shanghai Port Supervision Bureau and other units.

Address: Huangpu

Sights Nineteen

HSBC Bank Building In May 1995, Pudong Development Bank moved into the HSBC Bank Building. This was the third time before moving in. During the renovations (the first two were in 1975 and 1981), 33 murals were discovered. Eight of them are 4.3 meters wide and 2.4 meters long, depicting the architectural styles of eight cities including Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, Bangkok and Calcutta at the beginning of the century, and are equipped with eight groups of mythological characters and animal forms. . The last one is a huge mural of mythological stories on the top, with a total area of ??200 square meters and is made of hundreds of thousands of colorful mosaics. There is also a line in English between the murals, "We are all brothers within the four seas", which conveys the humanitarian message from the West in the 1920s.

Address: Huangpu

Twenty Attractions

Customs Building "The Step of the Times" is the Waterfall Clock located directly opposite the Customs Building.

It is embedded in the green corridor. It is 3.5 meters high and 2.7 meters long. It is in the shape of a dark green staircase. It is divided into ten steps. Each step is equipped with a water spray pipe and is controlled by a computer. The fountain can be seen gushing out from the green corridor. More than a thousand water columns form a water curtain. The water curtain drags to the stairs and flows down to become a waterfall. Colorful lights reflect on the water curtain, showing the time in major cities around the world expressed in Arabic numerals. The Times Waterfall Clock and the Customs Bell complement each other beautifully. The two clocks are located one high and one bottom. One is classical and the other is modern. The device is mechanically driven and the other is computer controlled. "One old and one young" complement each other and they are there day and night. Remind people to be punctual and cherish time. The building now houses Shanghai Customs.

Address: Huangpu

Attraction 21

The Bank of Communications Building at No. 14, Shandong 1st Road, was built in 1940 and covers an area of ??1,908 square meters. meters, with a construction area of ??10,088 square meters. Belongs to modernism style. The architectural design emphasizes vertical lines and the facade is simple and clear. The exterior wall on the ground floor is veneered with black marble, which is solemn and luxurious. There are artificial circular marble escalators decorated with copper railings on both sides of the entrance, and you can go up to the lobby on the second floor, which is full of red and magnificent. The lower parts of the 36 circular pillars in the hall and the walls around the hall are paved and decorated with red tiles, and the floor is also paved with red tiles. The solemn appearance of the building and the warmth of the interior make it unique and more modern among the classical buildings. Now it is Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions.

Address: Huangpu

Twenty-Two Attractions

The Huayosheng Bank Building is a Renaissance-style building that has gone through eighty years. Many springs and autumns. The Kuomintang Central Bank, Shanghai Space Administration, and China Foreign Exchange Trading Center all have offices here. The building has a solid structure and exquisite decoration. It forms a symmetrical structure with the main entrance as the central axis. The ground floor door has four double columns and hole-shaped windows on both sides. There are Ionic columns on the east facade of the second to third floors, and there are also classical column decorations on both sides of the windows. The exterior walls are made of white glazed bricks and granite, with harmonious tones. The exterior walls of the ground floor are made of Suzhou granite. The escalators in the building are made of marble, there are character reliefs on the walls on the second floor, and the huge and exquisite stained glass roof and cloister are still well preserved. The building is now the China Foreign Exchange Trading Center.

Sino-Russian Daosheng Bank Address: Huangpu

Attraction No. 23

The Linxi Newspaper Building is now renamed AIA Building. The Ziyu Building was once home to the Zilin West Newspaper, the largest foreign news and publishing organization in Shanghai. The AIA Insurance Company was officially renovated and moved in in 1998, so it was renamed "AIA Building". The facade of the building is divided into three levels. The first floor is veneered with rough large stones; the second floor is painted with cement; the third floor has dome-shaped windows on both sides and an elegant tower top, fully demonstrating the changes in architecture and Renaissance art. symmetry and harmony.

Address: Huangpu

Twenty-Four Attractions

Huizhong Hotel, walking on the Bund, there is a building with white brick walls and red brick waistline that is particularly attractive. Attracting people's attention, this American-style six-story building is the south building of the Peace Hotel. It is located at No. 19, Zhongshan East 1st Road, and was formerly known as the Central Hotel. This hotel, built in 1906, has profound historical significance. In 1909, the "Universal Anti-Smoking Conference" was held here. In 1996, the "Shanghai International Doping Conference" organized by the Joint Narcotics Control Administration was held, and the venue mark of the "Universal Anti-Smoking Conference" was erected. In 1911, the China Alliance Headquarters also held a welcome meeting in the hotel for Sun Yat-sen's inauguration as interim president. This series of commemorative historical facts adds more glory to the south building of the Peace Hotel.

Address: No. 20, Nanjing East Road

Attraction Twenty-Five

Chinachem Hotel (Sassoon Building) is located on the north and south floors of the Peace Hotel. Compared with the south building, the north building feels luxurious. The 77-square-meter building is known as the "No. 1 Building in the Far East" due to its exquisite interior and exterior decoration. The building has the architectural style of the American Chicago School, with a simple and clear appearance that emphasizes verticality. The granite walls, conical roof, and copper roof all exude a simple and elegant atmosphere. The hotel has suites from nine countries: British, American, Indian, German, French, American, Japanese, Spanish and medium-sized. The restaurant and lobby are magnificently decorated.

There is also the Shanghai Senior Jazz Band, which is very popular with foreign tourists. It plays famous songs from all over the world, making people feel like they are in a palace where world culture and classic art blend.

Address: No. 20, Nanjing East Road

Attraction Twenty-six

The Bank of China Building on the Bund is known for its European style, and the Bank of China Building is one of the few One of the few buildings with Chinese national characteristics. The building is divided into main building and secondary building. The exterior walls are made of Jinshan stone, the roof is a gentle square spire, covered with green glazed tiles, and the eaves are decorated with brackets. The east facade has deformed coin-shaped hollow window frames from high to low. The original stone sculptures of Confucius traveling around the world above the gate tell fascinating stories. The ceiling of the business hall originally had a pattern of "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" carved on it. There is an antique atmosphere everywhere. These carved beams, painted pillars and green tiles and cornices are also the crystallization of the wisdom and hard work of the Chinese nation, allowing future generations to inherit and carry forward them. The building is now the Shanghai Branch of Bank of China.

Address: Huangpu

Twenty-Seven Attractions

Since the opening of Shanghai as a port in 1943, foreign merchants have opened foreign banks, including Jardine Matheson. One of the first few. Since then, British businessmen have carried out a large number of trading activities here. Jardine Matheson Building is located at No. 27 Zhongshan 1st Road. It is a Renaissance-style building. The first and second floors of the building are divided into one section, with a clear axis built of granite. The door and window frames on both sides are shaped like Roman semicircular arches. There is a sheep head relief decoration above the main entrance, which looks solemn and solid. The third to fifth floors are also One section is supported by Roman Corinthian columns, which is majestic and shows a strong Western European classical color. The third floor has a stone railing balcony, and there are stone carvings inlaid above the entire window frame. The original platform and dome above the fifth floor have been removed. It has been raised to seven stories. The building now houses Shanghai Foreign Trade Bureau and other units.

Address: Huangpu

Twenty-eight Attractions

Green Cruise Building (Broadcasting Building), at the intersection of Zhongshan East 1st Road and Beijing Road, there is a building that looks ordinary but An interesting building, it is the Yita Cruise Building, also known as the "Green Cruise Building". The building is 7 stories high and has 2 basement levels. The solid and thick granite arch door is flanked by classical columns. There are extended balconies on the second to fifth floors, and there is also a tower on the top floor of the seventh floor. It is elegant and beautiful. The entire building has a simple and clear facade. It is also a typical Renaissance-style building. It is now the Shanghai Culture, Radio, Film and Television Administration.

Address: Huangpu

Attraction Twenty-Nine

The Oriental Building, now China Everbright Bank, was originally the office of the Shanghai branch of French bank Credit Agricole. Designers use luxurious and exaggerated touches to integrate architecture, sculpture and painting in churches and palaces, and use short eaves, wavy walls, overlapping columns and murals to create a mysterious religious atmosphere in the buildings. The building emphasizes facade decoration and treatment, paying particular attention to the proportions of the building itself. Above it is a huge Ionic column that runs through. The thick walls on both sides are divided into three sections horizontally. The top eaves are deep and have exquisite carvings. The doors and windows on the ground floor form three tall building doors, with linear reliefs in the middle. In addition, the small structure of the building is also carefully crafted, striving for perfection, which can be described as a Baroque classic.

Address: Huangpu

Thirty Attractions

The British Consulate was built in 1873. The building is two stories high, similar to the Renaissance architectural style. The building has a higher platform. There are five round-arched windows in the vertical middle section of the ground floor. The windows in the rooms on both sides are round-arched. The exterior facade has undergone changes. The entire building's exterior facade was originally made of exposed bricks, and the roof was paved with Chinese butterfly tiles. Now the exterior walls have been painted with cement. There is a large lawn in front of the building on the east side, making the environment even more beautiful. After liberation, the Shanghai Branch of China International Travel Service was located here. After the agency moved out, institutions such as the Shanghai Foreign Investment Commission, Shanghai Institute of International Economics and Trade, and Shanghai International Studies Center were located here. The building is now the Shanghai Municipal People's Government Service Center.

Address: No. 33, Zhongshan East 1st Road

Attraction No. 31

Broadway Building Shanghai Tower, composed of the main building and the auxiliary building, is located on the north side of Waibaidu Bridge. This is an early modernist style splayed apartment structure.

The exterior treatment and interior decoration are simple and clear, and the appearance is magnificent. The main building was originally named "Broadway Building". The annex building is also known as "Pujiang Hotel". Now a four-star hotel, the hotel has senior suites with characteristics from six countries: China, the United States, Britain, France, Japan and Arabia. It has received many heads of state and Chinese and foreign tourists.

Address: No. 20, North Suzhou Road

Attraction 32

The Russian Consulate in Shanghai is located on the north side of Waibaidu Bridge, where the Suzhou River and the Huangpu River meet. The building was built in 1916, covering an area of ??1,700 square meters and a construction area of ??3,264 square meters. The building has four floors and an attic. Half of the ground floor is placed underground, with a height of 2 meters above the ground. There are classical double columns on both sides of the door, round arch and flat arch window frames on the second and third floors, and pilasters between the windows. The roof is double-folded and hipped, with curved peaked windows. There is a two-story watchtower on the west side of the roof, a green iron dome, an embankment along the river, and a hexagonal pavilion on the east side, where you can watch the Huangpu River. , the scenery at the confluence of Suzhou River.

Address: No. 20 Huangpu Road

Attraction Thirty-three

Hua'an Building was built in 1924 by Huaan Hequn Life Insurance Company and completed in 1926. After adding another storey, the hotel will be 36.16 meters high, covering an area of ??1,973 square meters and a construction area of ??2,526 square meters. The building has an I-shaped floor plan, a neoclassical appearance, and is decorated in a variety of styles. The building is a three-dimensional three-section building with Ionic colonnades on the first and second floors. The main door is divided into three rooms. Doric columns protrude on both sides to form three horizontal sections. There are overhanging eaves between the seventh and eighth floors of the coupon windows. There is a tower at the top of the center, with Corinthian ring columns on the lower floor, Tashkent columns on the upper floor, and a gold dome on the top. The exterior walls on the bottom floor are built with granite, and the interior is gorgeously decorated. In 1939, overseas Chinese from Hong Kong rented this building and opened the Golden Gate Hotel. After liberation, the Kinmen Hotel closed down in 1950 due to labor disputes and was rented by the East China Textile, Pipe and Plastics Bureau. In 1958, it was renamed Overseas Chinese Hotel. The place is now the Golden Gate Hotel and is listed as a personal protection unit in Shanghai.

Address: No. 104, Nanjing West Road

Attraction Thirty-Four

Jincheng Bank Building was built in 1927 by Jincheng Bank, the first generation of architects in my country designed. The building is a reinforced concrete frame structure. It was originally four floors. During the Anti-Japanese War, a second floor was added. After the liberation, it was raised by one floor. It covers an area of ??1,775 square meters. After the additional floors, the building area is 9,783 square meters and the height is 25.9 meters. This is China's It is one of the most elegant bank buildings established by people. The front of the building is divided into three sections with six square columns to form a concave and convex wall, and a gate is set between two southern Doric columns. Parts such as the door lintel are decorated in Baroque style, and the entire building incorporates neoclassical and eclectic styles. Another architectural feature of the Jincheng Bank Building is reflected in the design of the doors and windows. The door is supported by two columns, with triangular granite beams on top. The beams are carved with circular patterns such as dragons, phoenixes, and axes, which are the symbols of the diploma site. There is an outer door outside the main door, and the outer door is equipped with a removable door; there are sliding doors on both sides of the inner door, and a four-leaf revolving door in the middle. The windows facing the street have beautiful iron grilles, and copper-colored steel windows are used on the second to fourth floors. There is also a balcony in the middle of the fourth floor. After the Jincheng Building was renamed the Shanghai Youth Palace in 1956, it became a guest house, named Guest House No. 200, Jiangxi Middle Road. In the 1980s, it was once the Fuzhou Hotel. In 1986, the building, now the Shanghai Branch of Bank of Communications, was listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Shanghai.

Address: No. 200, Jiangxi Middle Road

Attraction No. 35

Zhonghui Building is the Zhonghui Bank founded by Du Yuesheng. It was built in September 1934. It covers an area of ??2166 square meters and has a construction area of ??4868 square meters. It has a reinforced concrete structure. The Zhonghui Building is built in the Art Deco style, a type of building that was popular in the 1930s. It does not have many floors but has tall towers with a tall and beautiful shape. After the liberation of Shanghai, Zhonghui Bank was closed for liquidation. In 1959, upon the instruction of Mayor Chen Yi, the entire building was returned to the Shanghai Museum. In 1993, it was transformed by a real estate company into a comprehensive building integrating shopping malls, entertainment, restaurants, and offices. However, the original architectural style was somewhat damaged. It is now Zhonghui Building, which is listed as an outstanding modern building in Shanghai. Protective unit.

Address: No. 16, Henan South Road

Attraction Thirty-Six

The International Hotel (i.e. Sihang Savings Association Building) was completed in December 1934, with a height of 83.8 rice. Its highest height record has been held in Shanghai for nearly half a century. The hotel's straight lines and retracted top shape all reflect the characteristics of American Art Deco skyscrapers. Its structure and equipment represented the highest level in Shanghai and even the Far East at that time.

Address: No. 170, Nanjing West Road

Telephone: 63275225

Attraction Thirty-seven

New building of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau, built in 1919 Designed in 1913 by R.C. Turner, an architect of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, this is a reinforced concrete structure building with a perimeter layout. There is a hall 55 meters long and 31 meters wide in the inner courtyard, all made of steel structure, with a semicircular arched roof 15.5 meters high. The building is neoclassical in appearance and decorated in Baroque style. The columns running through the second and third floors of the facade are of Ionic style. At that time, it was the best in Shanghai in terms of its large scale, exquisite materials and advanced equipment. 19 indicates that Shanghai’s architecture is moving towards its golden age.

Address: No. 193-223, Hankou Road

Attraction Thirty-eight

The Jiangwan Municipal Government Building was completed in 1933 and was designed by the famous architect Dong Dayou. There is a square in front, covering an area of ??33,300 square meters. The appearance of the building is in the style of a Chinese classical palace, with a length of 93 meters from east to west and 25 meters in the middle. The roof is in the form of a mountain, with two wings each of 20 meters in length. The roof is in the pavilion style. There is a stone lion next to the gate. This kind of "big roof" building formed by Chinese classical reinforced concrete frame structure can be regarded as a typical example of excellent modern architecture in China. The building is now the Shanghai Institute of Physical Education and is listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Shanghai.

Address: No. 650, Qingyuan Ring Road

Attraction Thirty-Nine

The General Post Office was built in 1924 at a cost of more than 3.6 million yuan. The designer was Xinyi He was inspired by the topic of British architecture written by Matheson. The building has a construction area of ??25,294 square meters and a total height of 51.16 meters (including the bell tower, excluding the flagpole). Its appearance is in the British classical style, with Corinthian columns on the main facade running through three floors. There is a bell tower at the corner of the building and a tower above it, which is Italian Baroque in the 17th century. The most eye-catching are the two groups of sculptures on the bases on both sides of the bell tower. One group is of three people, holding models of locomotives, ship anchors and communication cables; the other group is also of three people, with the middle one being the god of commerce in Greek mythology. Jupiter, the god of love on the left and right, symbolizes the postal service for people to communicate their feelings. The business hall on the second floor is known as the "First Hall in the Far East". After the building was completed, it was once the first-class postal building in the Far East. The building is now the General Post Office Building and is listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit.

Address: No. 276, North Suzhou Road

Attraction Forty

Xianshi Company was built in 1917 and designed by Dehe Yang Company. Along the street is an arcade-style verandah connected to the street, with a roof garden and teahouse on the roof. There is a three-story tower on the facade at the corner of the building. Its plane becomes smaller and rounder from bottom to top, and it is supported by Tuscan columns. The building's appearance has a prominent waistline and is in Renaissance style, with parts of it decorated in Baroque style. The building is one of the early commercial buildings in Shanghai founded by national capital, and its tower image is one of the landscape symbols of Nanjing Road Commercial Street. Now it is Shanghai Fashion Co., Ltd.

Address: No. 690, Nanjing East Road

Attraction No. 41

It was built by Yongan Company in April 1916. The company covers an area of ??5,811 square meters and has a construction area of ??30,992 square meters. It was designed by Gonghe Yangxing and its architectural style is eclectic classical style. There are three cylindrical arched doors along Nanjing Road and 10 large glass display windows. It is the first store in Shanghai to use display windows along the road to display goods. There are double Ionic columns next to the main entrance, and there is a three-story tower on the top floor along Nanjing Road, named "Yiyun Pavilion". In 1933, Yongan Company built a new Yongan building between Zhejiang Road and Daxin Street to the east of the old building.

It covers an area of ??1,400 square meters and has a construction area of ??14,438 square meters. It has 22 floors in the north and a height of 92 meters, and 8 floors in the south with a basement. Designed by Harshad Matheson. American modern skyscraper style, with a trapezoid shape below the seventh floor and a rectangular shape above. There are two parallel closed overpasses built on Zhejiang Road, connected with the old buildings. The first to fifth floors of the new building serve as the sales department and shopping mall of Yongan Company. The seventh floor has the "Seventh Heaven Restaurant" with a dance floor. The place now houses Hualian Commercial Building, Overseas Chinese Store, and Seventh Heaven Hotel, and is listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Shanghai.

Address: Yongan Company Nanjing