Nowadays, many tourists visit China. Shanghai has become one of the most attractive places, a city by which they judge the whole country. Perhaps this is not entirely fair, but this megalopolis is definitely worth a visit.
Once upon a time in our country there was a tradition to call slum areas "Shanghai" or even "Shanghai". Now such an idea of this city as a crowded collection of squalid shacks is outdated. This word is used by those who have long or never visited China. Shanghai has become an ultramodern metropolis that surprises and delights.
Skyscrapers, multi-level flyovers, shining neon advertising lights, in short, all the external signs of the economic prosperity that China has been experiencing in recent decades. Shanghai and Hong Kong became the front gate to the new Celestial Empire, which has become the world industrial workshop. And if the former English colony owed in part to its appearance of Western civilization, then Shanghai became what it became, solely thanks to the work of the Chinese.
Already on approaching the city through the porthole of the aircraft , huge industrial areas are visible, smoky with numerous pipes.
The modern multi-terminal airport is striking in its size and in the way it is connected to the city center. A male magnetic cushion train (abbreviated as “magnetic levitation”) also inside looks like the cabin of an airliner and moves at a speed worthy of it. Over five hundred kilometers per hour, he develops, according to the digital speedometer installed in each car above the door, and in a matter of minutes overcomes the distance of more than forty kilometers to the metro station. A ticket is inexpensive, about five dollars.
That is now China. Shanghai continues to pleasantly surprise with its metro: it is crowded, but clean and everywhere in order.
The taxi service works very well, it is relatively inexpensive and works exclusively on a taximeter (the driver issues a check).
There are many places worth visiting when coming to Shanghai. Attractions are varied. This is the Aquarium, where over the heads of visitors walking or traveling on conveyor belts through tunnels made of thick glass, strange inhabitants of the ocean depths swim, and the Museum of Science and Technology, which occupies a huge task in the techno style with specialized halls and whole pavilions depicting climatic zones from the tundra to the jungle.
There are interesting models of atomic structures, intelligible models for demonstrating the transfer of information in binary code, and much more. You can touch everything with your hands, and children are even allowed to climb all this!
Another place worth visiting is the Shanghai TV Center or the “Pearl of the East”. Getting on a high-speed elevator and the opportunity to see the city from a height of over four hundred meters costs one hundred yuan. It’s inexpensive, about twelve American dollars. The view is beautiful and impressive. The television center is located very close to the Aquarium.
You should not go to the Aerospace Museum, although there is such a metro station. This is far away, but the museum was never built.
That is Shanghai. China, of course, is not all so modern, this can be seen by driving a hundred or two kilometers from the metropolis.
Therefore, the streets of Shanghai are filled with people offering vying for inexpensive services such as massage, shopping assistance and so on.