What is the largest city in China?

Shanghai is the largest city in China and one of the four municipalities directly under the Central Government of China. Shanghai is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River in the middle of Chinese mainland coastline. It is the largest industrial base, the largest foreign trade port and the largest commercial city in China. More than 20 million people live in Shanghai and its surrounding areas.

In the past, Shanghai was just a small town with fishing and cotton textile handicraft industry as its camp. /kloc-In the 20th century, Shanghai began to show its edge because of its good port location. 1842 After the treaty of nanking was signed, Shanghai became one of the ports open to foreign trade in China, and it developed rapidly because it became the center of East-West trade exchange. By the 1930s, Shanghai had become the hub for multinational companies to carry out trade and commerce, and the most prosperous business center in the Asia-Pacific region, known as "Paris of the East". However, after the founding of 1949, almost all foreigners left Shanghai, and Shanghai declined immediately. After the reform and opening up 1990, Shanghai began to recover its former prosperity and became the largest economic center in China and the largest trading port in the world.

Shanghai is also a new tourist destination at present, because it has profound cultural heritage and numerous historical sites, such as Shanghai's landmarks-the Bund and the Xintiandi in Puxi. However, in Pudong, which is separated by a river, there is another bustling scene: the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Jinmao Tower, Shanghai World Financial Center and other buildings together form the fifth largest skyline in the world-the Shanghai skyline. Shanghai Tower, the tallest building under construction in China, will make the architecture of Lujiazui Financial District in Shanghai stand in a three-legged position.

Today, Shanghai is not only an important center of science and technology, trade, finance and information in China, but also a place for international cultural exchange and integration. Shanghai has developed into an international metropolis and an important economic and trade center in the world. Some proposals also suggest that Shanghai will become a global city in the future. The international mainstream media even described Shanghai as "a model of the fastest economic development in the world".

China 20 10 Shanghai World Expo will be held in Shanghai soon.