上海东方明珠

1、上海,Introduction,Chinese Name: Shanghai,Total Area: 6340.5 Square Kilometers,Area: Pudong New Area、Changning Area 、 Huangpu Area etc.,Airport: Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport Shanghai Pudong International Airport,Train Station: Shanghai South Railway Station Shanghai Railway Station Shanghai

2、Hongqiao Railway Station,College: Fudan University、Tongji University 、 Shanghai Jiao Tong University、etc.,Oriental Pearl,Basic Information,Chinese Name: 上海东方明珠广播电视塔,English Name: Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower,Location: Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone,Designer: Jiang Huancheng,Target Date: 30th

3、July,1991,Time of Completion: 1st October,1994,Height: 468 meters,The Oriental Pearl Tower, which has sightseeing, catering, shopping, entertainment, business conference, exhibition, historical displays, travel agents and other service functions, becomes the landmark of Shanghai and one of the touri

4、st attractions of Shanghai.,The Tower can accommodate 350 guests for dinner. The restaurant, at the same time, provides more luxurious set meals and the combination of Chinese and Western buffets, hundreds of kinds of delicacies uninterruptedly supplying for visitors enjoying both delicacy and beaut

5、y.,There are more than 1000 tourist souvenirs in the counters of each sightseeing layer with unique appearances and graceful manufactures.,The Oriental Pearl Tower the Jinmao Tower(88 floors) the Global Finance Center,The Oriental Pearl Tower, with its high quality service, was rated as the first Na

6、tional Grade AAAAA Tourist Attractions by the National Tourism Administration.,are considered as “Golden Triangle”,It is conducted by tower、three giant columns which diameter is 9 meters、the down sphere、the center sphere and the capsule. It forms “pearls falling into a jade plate” with the adjacent

7、Shanghai International Conference Center. The diameter of the down sphere is 50 meters, which is installed from the columns 68 meters to 118meters.The diameter of the center sphere is 45 meters installed from 250 meters to 295 meters. Then, the up sphere, the capsule, is installed from 335 meters to

8、 349 meters, whose diameter is 14 meters.,Architectural Structure,Origin of the Name,The origin of the Oriental Pearl Tower was named bt a poet from the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyis the pipas description of voice, in which the poet compared the pipas voice to pearl on the jade plate with the beautiful so

9、und.,The Revolving Restaurant,Location: in the 267 meters capsule of the tower,The second highest revolving restaurant in Asia,Area: 1500 square meters,The Exhibition Hall,Function: introduction of Shanghais developing history in recent 100 years.,International News Center,Science City,The Bund,Orig

10、in of the “Bund”,“Bund” is the British to the Chinese name of Shanghai from the river area.,On the 1.5 kilometric arcs from the Bund east of the Jinling Road to Baidu ridge stands 52 architectures with different style, British, French, ancient Greek, etc. There were many foreign banks, councils, con

11、sulates working here, called the “Oriental Wall Street” which was a form of Shanghais historical epitome of semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.,the New Bund 2 # Dongfeng Hotel,In the past, it was the very famous British Council, a typical British classical architecture. The building has 6 layers

12、involved the basement, on which roof at the end of the north and south each has a belvedere with gorgeous decoration. On the first floor is the bar which has the longest bar-counter with 110.7 feet in the East.,New Bund 12 #,New bund 12 # was the famous HSBC bank before. The building was built in 19

13、23, which was imitated the ancient Greeks igloo. It approximated square rectangular building with five layers, with the addition of the tophalf round roof which is totally 7 layers. The decoration inside was remarkable, equipped with all kinds of antechambers of America, Britain, France, Russia, Jap

14、an etc. British called it “the most recherch architecture” from the Suez Canal to the Far Eastern Bering Strait.,Next to the HSBC is the Shanghai Customs House, which was the 19th centurys socialist construction. It was built in 1927, which was rarely seen all around the world. The clock on the top

15、of the building can be seen from all sides. It plays a song with deep bell spreading further.,The HSBCs building and customs building was built by the British designer Wilson. Shanghais residents named the two building “twins building”. It is still one of the landmarks of Shanghai.,The two buildings

16、 at the eastern crossing of Nanjing Road are called the Peace Hotel. The building which is located in the north called Huizhong Hotel. It was the earliest existing hotel in Shanghai. It can be seen as a historical architecture, which belongs to the style of the English Renaissance. The biggest featu

17、re of it is the belt course with rainbow bricks, the veneering with white wall brick. It is solemn and elegant from further distance. It is an uncommon work.,Now we step on the Binjiang Avenue which has unique features. It not only set culture and afforest in one, but also a good place for people to

18、 do morning exercises. In the daytime, it is a good place for tourists from all around the world visiting. In the evening, it is a good place for sweethearts dating. It is said that many foreigners come here to enjoy their life.,Huangpu park is in the face of the well-known at home and abroad “Huangp