With the population of more than 20 million, Shanghai is the largest city in China and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world. Located on China’s central eastern coast at the mouth of the Yangtze River, Shanghai is regarded as the “Oriental Pearl” and remained the most developed city in China.

Originally, it was just a fishing and textiles town, since 1842, it has been one of the cities opened to foreign trade, and then the city flourished as a center of commerce between east and west, and became a multinational hub of finance and business by the 1930s. In the past 20 years, Shanghai also became an attractive city for tourists all over the world. For more information see Shanghai Travel Guide