Xinzhuang is an interchange station on the Shanghai Metro. It is the southern terminus of Line 1 and the northern terminus of Line 5. It is one of the busiest stations in the Shanghai Metro, serving 230,000 passengers every day. Both Line 1 and Line 5's stations have two side platforms and two tracks, with a wall separating the Line 1 and the Line 5 platforms.
Hongkou Football Stadium is an interchange station between Lines 3 and 8 on the Shanghai Metro. The station opened on 26 December 2000 as part of the initial section of Line 3 from Shanghai South Railway Station to Jiangwan Town; the interchange with Line 8 opened on 29 December 2007 as part of that line's initial section from Shiguang Road to Yaohua Road.
Dongfang Road or Dongfang Lu is a major road in Pudong New District of Shanghai.
People's Square is a large interchange station of the Shanghai Metro, located below People's Square, also next to People's Park and Nanjing Road, in the city center of Shanghai. The station is one of the busiest metro stations in mainland China, handling a daily traffic of over 700,000 passengers.
Leifeng Pagoda is a five story tall tower with eight sides, located on Sunset Hill south of the West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Originally constructed in the year AD 975, it collapsed in 1924 but was rebuilt in 2002. Since then, it has become a popular tourist attraction. As a protected cultural heritage unit, the Ten Views of West Lake - Leifeng Sunset consists of the Sunset Hill, Leifeng Pagoda, the Imperial Monument and the courtyard and other buildings.
Suzhou Creek, also called the Wusong (Woosung) River, is a river that passes through the Shanghai city center. It is named after the neighboring city of Suzhou (Soochow), Jiangsu, the predominant settlement in this area prior to the rise of Shanghai as a metropolis.
Middle Chuangxin Road(formerly Tangzhen East) is a station on Line 2 of the Shanghai Metro, located in Tang Town, Pudong. This station is part of the eastward extension from Guanglan Road to Pudong International Airport that opened on 8 April 2010.
First generation trams in Shanghai began operating in 1908 using a steel wheeled electric system until the last was closed in December 1, 1975. The last operating tram line in Shanghai was No. 3, which ran from Hongkou Park to Jiangwan Wujiaochang. It was dismantled in 1975, and replaced by the 93 bus. In the early days of operation, tram cars were partitioned to provide first- and second-class seating. Some trams, principally for the Chinese workers, were designated as third-class.
Longhua Pagoda (龙华塔) is an octagonal wood and brick pagoda located in Xuhui District, Shanghai, East China. It is thought to have been first built during the Three Kingdoms Period, but the existing tower structure was built during the Northern Song dynasty. The pagoda underwent several renovations over various dynastic periods, which resulted in the addition of several architectural features that were not in the typical style of the Song dynasty. After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, these later additions were removed and rebuilt in the Song dynasty style. Because of this, the pagoda has now been largely restored to its original appearance. The pagoda was twice established as a Shanghai Cultural Site Under State Protection, once on 26 May 1959 and again on 7 December 1997. On 25 May 2006, it was declared by the State Council to be among the sixth group of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level.
Shanghai County was a Chinese county in modern-day Shanghai Municipality. Shanghai County was first established in 1292 and finally abolished in 1992. Shanghai County was for most of its existence a part of Songjiang Prefecture, in Jiangsu Province, but later became a county under Shanghai Municipality. Shanghai County was historically the governing authority of the Shanghai's urban area and neighbouring areas. Its extent reduced with the establishment of the Shanghai Special Municipality and, later, Shanghai Municipality. Immediately before abolition, the county extended over a crescent-shaped area adjacent to, and surrounding, the southwest of Shanghai's city centre.
Bright Food is a Chinese multinational food and beverage manufacturing company headquartered in Shanghai. It is the second-largest Chinese food manufacturing company measured by 2011 revenues. The company is wholly owned by the Shanghai Municipal Government via Shanghai Municipal Investment Group and another sister company.
Haipai cuisine is a Western-style cooking that is unique to Shanghai, China. It absorbs the traditions of several cuisines from other regions of China and of Western cooking, adapting them to suit the local taste according to the features of local ingredients. It is divided into several major types: French, Italian, Russian, British, and German, among which the Russian-type dishes, such as the Shanghai-style borscht, receive a great welcome as they are more affordable. Today, the most famous dishes of Haipai cuisine are luó sòng tāng, fried pork chops, and Shanghai salad. Apart from the above-mentioned common dishes, baked clams, baked crabs, and jin bi duo soup are also popular among the Haipai dishes.
Songpu Bridge, first known as Huangpu River Bridge, Cheting Bridge, is the first bridge built across the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. It is a double-layer steel truss bridge for highway and railway across the Huangpu River in Songjiang District. The Songpu Bridge Railway Bridge and Highway Bridge were opened to traffic on September 11, 1975 and June 29, 1976, respectively. For a long time after its completion, it was also the only bridge on the upper reaches of the Huangpu River until the opening of the Huangpu River Bridge on the G15 Shenhai Expressway in 2006.
The tomb of Lu Xun is the burial place of the Chinese writer Lu Xun (1881–1936), located in the northwestern corner of the Lu Xun Park in Hongkou District, Shanghai. Covering an area of 1,600 square metres (17,000 sq ft), the tomb of Lu Xun was built in 1956, and in the same year, the remains of Lu Xun was moved to this tomb from the Wanguo Cemetery of Shanghai.
Chaoyang North Tower is located in Shuangta District, Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China, named after the tower's northernmost location among the three towers in Chaoyang City in the early years. The tower lacks explicit documentation in the historical record. During the extensive maintenance from 1984 to 1992, the archaeological team discovered the rammed earth tower foundations of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty beneath the Chaoyang North Tower during construction. The base of the tower was eventually combined with historical materials and other archaeological findings to discover that the existing tower was built in the Tang Dynasty and rebuilt in the Liao Dynasty. The tower is also known as the "The Five Ages Pagoda" or "Pagoda of Five Ages with One Body" because the base of the tower beneath it spans five eras. The sōrin of the tower is a thirteen-story brick tower with dense eaves, 42.6 meters high, consisting of a pedestal, a semi-pedestal, a towed body, dense eaves, and a tower brake. There is a tower door on the south side of the tower, through which one can enter the heart of the tower. The highest point of the tower's core chamber can reach 27 meters, and there is an underground Palace directly below it and a celestial Palace directly above it in which two Shakyamuni relics were unearthed in 1988. In 1988, the Chaoyang North Tower was listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit.
Guanghui Temple Huata,, is located on Guanghui Road, Zhengding County, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, People's Republic of China, and is a 4-story octagonal Huata. The tower was built in the Tang Dynasty and rebuilt in the Dading years of the Jin Dynasty. The entire pagoda has 3 floors in the style of an attic, with steps on the first and second floors, and 2 statues of Buddha enshrined in the heart chamber of the pagoda on the third floor. The fourth layer is a bouquet-shaped pagoda statue of warriors, elephants, lions and Bodhisattvas. During the Republic of China period, the four sets of chambers below the tower were destroyed during the war. In 1961, Guanghui Temple Huata was listed as a national key cultural relic protected unit. In 1999, the repair project of Guanghui Temple Huata was completed, and the whole temple was restored to its original appearance.
The Aviation Martyrs' Cemetery is one of the most important historical sites and representative buildings of modern times in Jiangsu Province. It is located in the northern part of Zhong Shan in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and was built in 1932, with pagodas, a pavilion, an altar, and a cemetery. There are 4,296 martyrs in the cemetery, including R.O.C. Airmen who died in the Northern Expedition and the Shanghai War of the National Revolutionary Army, Chinese and foreign airmen who died in the War of Resistance against Japan, and R.O.C. Airmen who died in the civil war between China and the Communist Party. Some of the martyrs have a tomb with their clothes, while the rest have their names, origins, and dates of birth and death inscribed on the memorial. The Aviation Martyrs' Cemetery was burned down by the invading Japanese army during the war and was rebuilt to its pre-war condition after the war. Later, the cemetery was completely destroyed by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, all the skeletons were lost and reconstructed in 1987.
TheNo. 7 Caobao Road Bridge Blockhouse is a historical site situated on the north side of the eastern embankment of the No. 7 Caobao Road Bridge, in Qibao Town, Minhang District, Shanghai. These fortress remains are now located within Minhang Cultural Park and hold significance as they are included in the lists of Minhang District and Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Protection Units. They are also designated as the Minhang District Patriotism Education Base. The People's Government of Qibao Town has erected a monument to honor revolutionary martyrs and acommemorative sculpture to pay tribute to the 37 soldiers of the fourth battalion of the 81st Division of the Third Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army who lost their lives during the three-day battle to liberate Shanghai. Adjacent to the blockhouse, there stands a statue of a PLA soldier. Previously, a small building covering an area of around 100 square meters was open to the public free of charge within Minhang Cultural Park.This building served as a memorial hall to educate the public about the history of the battle to liberate Shanghai. However, it appears that this building has been demolished.
The tomb of Xu Guangqi is the burial site of Xu Guangqi, a prominent late Ming dynasty statesman, scholar, and leader of the Catholic community, as well as some of his relatives. It is located north of Xujiahui, Shanghai, in the present-day Guangqi Park, covering an area of 3,000 square meters and standing 2.2 meters tall. The tomb is elliptical in shape.
The tomb of Soong Ching-ling is the mausoleum of Soong Ching-ling, the last wife of the founding father of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen, and the honorary chairman of the People's Republic of China. It is located next to the tomb of Soong Ching-ling's parents in the Soong Ching-ling Mausoleum in Changning district, Shanghai. The tomb of Soong Ching-ling was completed in 1981 and was declared a national major cultural relic protection unit by the State Council on February 23, 1982.
