Specialty Streets in Shanghai(2)

New Jiangyin Road Bird And Flower Market
Traffic: Public buses 20, 37, 23 and 109

Jiangyin Road Flower and Bird Market is the largest of its kind in Shanghai. In a 200-m long street are set up some hundred simple stands or stalls dealing in flowers or birds. During the busy seasons of spring and autumn there are more than 300 stalls. Here, you will find all kinds of ornamental fish, flowers, birds, insects and grass.

Many flower and bird lovers gather here to choose their pets or fake a walk here to exchange information or discuss on their interests. It has become a must for all Shanghai flower and bird lovers. Jiangyin Road Flower and Bird Market was moved from Jiangyin Road to huangjiaque Road in Dec. 2001.

New Railway Station Ever Bright City
Traffic: No 1 Subway Shanghai Railway Station Stop and public buses 13,18,115,95 and 104
New Railway Station Ever Bright City is a newly developed commercial city with Shanghai Railway Station as the center.It is still under construction.

The Ever Bright City is on the site of former most concentrated slum areas.In the past years,with the introduction of foreign funds and a total investment of 18 billion yuan a planned construction of 3 million sq.m. floor space was taking place on an area of 1.24 sq.m.At present, a number of modern commercial facilities,like the Japanese Jusco Department Store, Famous Brand Commercial Building,Huanlong Commercial Building, Yaxin Life Square,Xinya Square Hotel,Xinya Great Wall Hotel, Jiali Ever Bright City,East China Tourist and Commercial Building are completely changing the face of the area and turning it into an important commercial center in Shanghai.

New Shanghai Commercial City
Traffic: Public buses 783,785,981,01,82,86,119,773 and Tunnel line 3 and 4 Located in the Middle of Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone, it is the largest commercial center in Pudong.It occupies an area of 14 hectares with a number of high-rises and a 600-m long pedestrian walkway.

The commercial city was collectively invested with 8 billion yuan by the different commercial groups in Shanghai.The total floor space is 800,000 sq.m.,of which 260,000 sq.m. are shopping areas.It is equipped with up-to-date facilities and managed by modern system with buried network piping,central heating,optical fiber communication and internet computerized.

The Next-age Commercial Building within the commercial city is the first retail enterprise run by joint venture.It foretells the beginning of developing market jointly by Shanghai's commerce with international commercial groups.

Shanghai Old Street

Traffic: Public buses 11, 42, 64, 66, 126 and 926
Looking back to the old days and exploring old Shanghai you will be brought by  Shanghai Old Street through the times-times back to 100 year ago. The rebuilt Shanghai Old Street is 825 m long from Renmin Road to Henan Road, divided into the eastern and Western section. The eastern section runs from Renmin Road to Guanyi Street.

Shanghai Old Street is an important east-west passageway for sightseeing in the Yuyuan commercial and tourist area. Back in the old days, it was called the Great Street Before the Temple.

There gathered a group of Shanghai's earliest old-style private banks, gold shops, silverware shops, wine shops, teahouses, theatres and firms, a passageway for a passenger flow linking Shiliupu, the City God Temple and Yuyan area. It was an old street gathering all the 360 trades of old Shanghai. It mow presents to visitors the almost extinct trades, like the private banks, shops with mahogany furniture, pawn shops, old-fashioned teahouses, old-fashioned wine shops, and embroidery stores.

In the eastern section of the street after  remodeling and restoration teahouses, old-fashioned wine shops, and embroidery stores. In the eastern section of the street after  remodeling and restoration to antique feature the folding screen doors and aluminum windows of many shops are no longer there but replaced with latticed windows, wooden door-boards and swing-boards and swing-doors typical of decorations of last Qing Dynasty residences.

Besides, the patterned drip-pipes, upturned eaves, protruding corners and horse-head walls make visitors feel as if they have gone back to the old days.

The western section is mainly laid out with Ming Dynasty imitation buildings with black tiles and white-washed walls, red pillars and upturned eaves, typical of the architectural style of old towns in the Ming and Qing Dynssties. Here one will find rows of antique-featured shops, such as the water pipe store, glutinous dumplings store, roasted nuts shop, teahouses. A visitor here will find the different trades of business and travel and a hundred different features of the town market.