China Tours

Car transfer to Tongli, visit the Tuisi Garden, Jiayin Hall with lunch. Back to Shanghai in the afternoon.

About Shanghai: When Shanghai first began from its humble beginnings, it was far from obvious that the world would one day hear its roar. Since then, Shanghai has seen dramatic changes, spinning between the far extremes of Fortunes wheel.

The financial go-go capital of China, Shanghai, which means go to the sea in Chinese, is a city of 16 million that remembers its hallucinating history. Divided in half by the Huangpu River into Puxi (west of the Huangpu) and Pudong (east of the Huangpu), Shanghais story is one of millions made and mirages lost. Pried open by British guns in the First Opium War, this once sleepy fishing and weaving village gained notoriety as the Paris of the East as a colonial city of commerce, vice, money and political intrigue. More recently, Shanghai has benefited the most from China’s economic reforms, rapidly rising as the shining Pearl of the Orient.

City Guide of Shanghai