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1: Shanghai´s skyline is still rising. This is one of the many skyskrapers under construction.
© B. Hennig, 2001 [back to picture] [more]
2: Oriental Pearl Tower seen through a momument at the Bund.
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3: Pudong New Area at night - Symbol for China´s path into the 21st Century.
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4: Shopping Centre at the Xuijahui sub-centre in the southwest of the urban area.
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5: Only little of the old chinese town is still left in the city centre.
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6: View from Jin Mao Tower. The picture shows a traditional settlement at Pudong New Area which is surrounded by new skyscrapers which have been built in the past few years.
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7: Many of the commercial buildings are not fully occupied or are even completely vacant like this building in Pudong.
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8: Nanjing Lu - the most important shopping street in Shanghai. Most of the formerly crowded street has now been transformed into a pedestrian area.
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9: Mao´s Statue at the Bund promenade.
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10: Renmin Square and Shanghai Museum in the old centre of Shanghai.
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11: City model of Shanghai with all of the new planned buildings.
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12: Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall portrays the city from its foundation to the future (see picture 11).
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13: Bund at sunset.
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14: Shanghai´s traffic system still quite efficient in 2001. The city highway has been built on an elevated level. Meanwhile the increasing number of privately owned cars is causing more and more traffic jams.
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15: Nanjing Lu, the busiest shopping street in Shanghai and China. Over the last few years it has been transformed into a pedestrian walkway.
© W. Taubmann, 2000 [back to picture]
16: Bund: most of the buildings along the Huangpu River were built in european colonial style during the first half of the 20th century. Today, the hotels, banks, and office buildings which line the Bund serve the financial and trade needs of Shanghai. Most of the high-rise buildings in the background were erected in the last two decades. The Oriental Pearl TV Tower, the highest tower in Asia (466 m), has a very symbolic function for Shanghai.
© W. Taubmann, 2000 [back to picture]
17: Pudong New Area: Liujazui Finance and Trade Zone, more than 100 high-rise buildings, occupied by mainly financial institutions (banks, stock markets, insurance companies, etc.).
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18: Liujazui Finance and Trade Zone: Jinmao Tower, the country's highest building (420 m), the tower houses activities such as finance, trade, entertainment, shopping, hotel, etc.
© W. Taubmann, 2000 [back to picture]
19: Suzhou River
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