英语topic-shanghai international city

英语topic-shanghai international city
英语topic-shanghai international city

英语topic-shanghai international city
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Shanghai is an international city in China. It is also an international city in the world. It is in the east of China. There are a lot of interesting places in Shanghai. Many people go sightseeing in ...

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Shanghai is an international city in China. It is also an international city in the world. It is in the east of China. There are a lot of interesting places in Shanghai. Many people go sightseeing in Shanghai. There are a lot of shopping centres in Shanghai. Many people go shopping there.
Shanghai is the largest city in China in terms of population with over 20 million people in its metropolitan area. 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(直辖市的意思).
The city is an emerging tourist destination renowned for its historical landmarks such as the Bund and Xintiandi, its modern and ever-expanding Pudong skyline including the Oriental Pearl Tower, and its new reputation as a cosmopolitan center of culture and design. Today, Shanghai is an important centre of commerce and finance. One conference paper has referred to it as a future global city and the popular press have described it as the "showpiece" of the world's fastest-growing economy
Boys and girls：
Welcome to China. Your first stop is Shanghai, I'll give you some information about your daily schedule here. On July 19th, there will be a welcoming party for you in the morning, and in the afternoon, we will have some introduction about the Past, Present and the Future of Shanghai. The next day on July 20th, in the morning you will have chance to learn some simple Chinese, and then we will visit the Yu Garden in the afternoon. On July 21st, you will experience to be a Shanghainese in a Chinese family for a whole day. On July 22nd we will go to Nanjing road for shopping in the morning, and then you will leave for Beijing in the afternoon. I hope you will enjoy your summer vacation here in Shanghai
The features of a city are its buildings. As a factor most reflecting the times, society and nation,the buildings give overall and integrated expression to the national tradition, regional features spirit of the times and the social value. When you walk along the financial street of the Bund and the commercial street of East Nanjing Road and among the villas and gardens of Xujiahui, you can feel the history of prosperity of Shanghai. In the past 150 years since its opening in 1843, Shanghai has gradually developed into an international metropolis as well as an important economic, trade financial and cul-tural center of China. The special development op-portunities have made the western culture, local Shanghai culture and regional cultures of China collide, co-exist and become integrated and thus make Shanghai integrate the essence of the Chinese and Foreign cultures. In this way, Shanghai has become the place of origin for the modern Chinese con-struction culture and has a unique history of con-struction culture.
The modern buildings of Shanghai are rich in styles, almost covering those of almost all the
periods of the world construction history. It can be said that they constitute a living world construction history. You can see the new classicism buildings, Gothic building and compromise buildings, to the modernism buildings popular in Europe and America, decoration and art buildings and the new classicism Chinese buildings. The number of the styles, the complexity of the types and the grand scale of those builds are beyond match in this world. They give a comprehensive reflection of the evolution of the modern society and cities and also provide a key to learn the culture of Shanghai and the history of modern China.
Those old buildings have seen the changes of Shanghai and are bestowed with the prosperity of
Shanghai. At this age, when China is embracing a new round of great economic development and the
new concepts and ideas will bring Shanghai to an even brighter future, those old buildings will be bestowed with new significance. Who will wake them up, wash away the dust, make them become
stronger and make them stay young and beautiful? It is we. We will devote all our enthusiasm and
wisdom to accomplish this mission.

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