Shanghai Travel – The People’s Square
Shanghai People’s Square(人民广场) is located in central Shanghai. After transformation, a total area of 14 million square meters, the Shanghai financial culture, greening and beautifying the next century as one of the activity center.
Now Shanghai People’s Square and Shanghai People’s Park is famous in the liberation of the Race Course. 1861, when the director of Happy Valley Association, the British consul in Shanghai Hogg colluded with Britain to the Shanghai Road, Taiwan has requested to draw a circle of land as the runway at Happy Valley. The acquiescence of local officials at the time the Qing Dynasty, he rode troops on that from now on the first department store entrance, the west, turn south have come a big circle, then traces of horseshoe ring up and forced to use low-cost ring Ma Tao within the 466 acres of farmland, forcing more than 30,000 farmers to leave their homes, built-called “Far East first,” “Shanghai Race Course.”
Shanghai People’s Square to a new administrative, cultural, ecological, transportation, commerce and other functions and solemn, open, bright image, a symbol of urban civilization in Shanghai. In 1995, was named “Top Ten 90′s Shanghai New Landscape” and “Top Ten tourist attractions,” one of the.
These China pictures are about Shanghai People’s Square of Shang travel.
