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