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	This panorama was made on the pedestrian level of the main intersection of the Huahai Lu and the Chengdu Lu. The Huahai Lu is Shanghai's newest and most important shopping street with several huge department stores like Isetan, Parksons and Printemps and shops and restaurants representing world and Chinese brands (e.g. The Porsche dealer and the branch office of Beijing's famous Quanjude Duck restaurant ) are on this glittering alternative to another famous but now worn Nanjing Lu. The Chendu Lu is a main flyover throughway from north to south and linked with the Shanghai Ring Road. In the panorama we only see the bottom of this flyover passing overhead the pedestrian level we stood on.
The Bund or Waitan is the main financial street of China. Rows of bank buildings, representing the world's most important banks and the Bank of China (housed in the highest building) date from the 1920's. The Bund is an Anglo-Indian term for the embankment of a muddy waterfront. Along it flows the Huang Pu river, a very wide and deep river through which huge oceangoing cruisers like the MS Oriana can pass. On the other side is the Pudong area, specifically seen in the panorama are the Lujiazui Financial centre with one of the world's highest skycrapers, the Jin Mao tower right alongside a less higher golden building with Aurora on the top. The Pearl Television tower (balls on a stick) is a major landmark. The Waitan and the Lujiazui area are connected with several tunnels, one for traffic and one for pedestrians. A few blocks further from Waitan, this monument for capitalism in the thirties and forties, is the birth-site of the Chinese Communist Party (1921). One can only wonder if it was influenced by The Bund. The Chinese Communist Party was founded by middle class Chinese, radical intellectuals and students, provoked by the deep riff between rich and poor in the 1920's.
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