What's interesting about Shanghai People's Square?

The interesting places in Shanghai People's Square include underground shopping malls, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai Grand Theatre, Urban Planning Museum and Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street.

1, underground shopping mall

The underground shopping mall of People's Square is the largest underground commercial center in China at present, with a total area of more than 30,000 square meters, including underground commercial street and underground shopping mall, with two ground entrances, two escalators and four pedestrian escalators.

From the lawn at the southeast end of People's Square, take the escalator down to Sinking Square, 8 meters underground, and step into the underground commercial street. This is a long street 300 meters long and 36 meters wide, with nearly 100 shops on both sides. The shops are elegantly decorated, and some are decorated into warm rooms, including small round tables, lounge chairs and sofas. Customers can sit down and buy slowly. Shops mainly deal in clothing, leather shoes, watches, glasses, photography, food, cafes, banks, supermarkets and so on.

2. Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Museum is a building with a square base and a circular cornice, and its shape means "round place" in China. It not only has the form and significance of the basic surface and steps of China traditional architecture, but also has the oriental garden style that embodies modern science and technology and the spirit of the times. The museum has four towering art sculpture arches to record the evolution of words and history; The artistic stone carving of Eight Lions Tianlu in front of the right door expresses the incomparable brilliance of Chinese culture.

3. Shanghai Grand Theatre

Building a grand theatre in Shanghai is the urgent desire of the people of Shanghai and the vast number of literary and art workers. Shanghai Grand Theatre is located in the northwest of People's Square, with an area of 1 1528 square meters and a seating capacity of 1800. Designed by a famous French architect, Shanghai Grand Theatre adopts the most advanced materials and lighting in the world and presents an admirable design scheme to the people of Shanghai with a brand-new concept.

The structure of the Grand Theatre is a simple and smooth geometric shape, and the crown-like white arc roof bends to the sky. There are classical outdoor theaters and hanging gardens on it, which looks like a cornucopia, symbolizing Shanghai's broad mind of absorbing world culture and art. Surrounded by platforms, gardens, fountains and pools, the crystal clear Grand Theatre will become another cultural landscape of People's Square.

4. Urban Planning Museum

Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall was completed in early 2000 and officially opened to the public on February 25th, 2000. Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, as an important window for Shanghai's external publicity, takes the theme of "city, people, environment and development" to show the achievements of Shanghai's urban planning, construction and development to the people of Shanghai and the world, so that citizens can understand and participate in urban planning and build a communication bridge between the municipal government and citizens.

5. Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street

Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street is located in Huangpu District, Shanghai, starting from Tibet Middle Road in the west and Henan Middle Road in the east. The pedestrian street built on the 50th anniversary of the National Day has made the "Centennial Nanjing Road" look brand-new and become another beautiful new urban landscape in Shanghai. From the People's Square Station 19 exit, you can see Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street. Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street is a well-known commercial street in Shanghai, with everything from large shopping malls to amorous feelings and delicacies.