Shanghai Guide in English and Chinese

Friends: Good afternoon! Now we come to the Bund on the banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, first of all, I would like to welcome you to visit the Bund and wish you a pleasant trip.　The new Bund *** there are five tourist routes, on your left is known as the "architectural exposition of the world's" spectacular architectural complex and spacious Zhongshan Road, your right is the sparkling Huangpu River, as well as the prospect of Pudong Lujiajia embellishment of the financial and trade areas, in front of the new and unique sightseeing tour area. This complex, Zhongshan Road, sightseeing area, Huangpu River, Lujiazui as if the score in the five-stringed score, the diligent people of Shanghai is like a string of notes, is composed of the latest and most beautiful music, welcome to the guests of honor.　What makes the Bund so special? To put it simply, it used to be a piece of reed-strewn wasteland outside Shanghai's old city hall.　After the first Opium War in 1840, the locked door of the country was opened by colonial artillery, and Shanghai was forced to open as a commercial port. Since then, a variety of Western-style buildings have been erected with the colonizers' "beaching", and by the early 1930s, Shanghai had jumped from a small seaside town to the largest city in the Far East.　These buildings with the European Renaissance style, although not from the same design hand, not built in an era, but their architectural style is so harmonious and unified, just like heaven. From Jinling East Road Bund to Waibaidu Bridge is only 1.5 kilometers long on the arc, high and low, lined up 52 buildings of different styles, there are British, French, Ancient Greek and so on. Back then, many foreign banks, general associations and consulates gathered here, which was known as the "Wall Street" in the East and formed a historical miniature of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society of old Shanghai.　Please take a look at the Dongfeng Hotel, No.2 on the New Bund, which used to be a very famous British general meeting place, and it is a typical British classical building. It is a typical English classical building with 6 floors (including the basement), with an observation pavilion at each of the north and south ends of the building, and extremely gorgeous interior decoration. The bar on the first floor was once proud of having the longest bar cabinet in the East at 110.7 feet, and now the American KFC fast food restaurant is located inside.　No.12 on the New Bund was formerly the famous "HSBC Bank", which was built in 1923 and is a domed building modeled after the ancient Greek style. The building is a rectangular building close to a square, with five floors, plus the top half of the spherical roof dish has seven floors, steel frame structure. Inside the building is very well decorated, with the United States, Britain, France, Russia, Japan and other countries a variety of reception rooms. This building was once boasted by the British as "from the Suez Canal to the Far East Bering Strait," one of the most elaborate buildings.　The building next to the HSBC Bank is the Shanghai Customs Building, a 19th-century Revivalist structure built in 1927, which is rare in today's world. The big clock on top of the building can be seen around the clock, every 15 minutes to play a short piece of music, the sound of the bell mellifluous deep, the sound of 10 miles.　HSBC Building and Customs Building are out of the British designer Wilson, Shanghai affectionately called them "sister buildings", is still one of the important symbols of Shanghai. The two buildings at the entrance of Nanjing East Road are both called the Peace Hotel. The building facing north was built in 1906 as the Huizhong Hotel, one of the earliest surviving hotels in Shanghai. It can be regarded as a historical building, belonging to the English Renaissance style. The building's most important feature is the fa?ade of colored red bricks to do the waistline, white wall bricks to do the veneer, from a distance both solemn and elegant, but also a unique style, is a rare masterpiece.　These buildings on the Bund are the crystallization of the hard work and wisdom of the Chinese working people, but also reflects the looting and aggression of the Western colonialists in Shanghai. Nowadays, in order to let people understand the history of these buildings, there are nameplates in English and Chinese in front of each building.　The name given to the Bund by the Shanghainese has also changed over time. Shanghai people call the Bund the Old Bund before the liberation, the Bund after the liberation, and now people praise her as the New Bund. The seizure of the Bund has happened many times in history, but each time has a completely different historical significance. Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the strategic center of gravity of China's reform and opening up has shifted from the south to the north, and the development and revitalization of Pudong has brought Shanghai to the forefront of national reform and opening up. The spring breeze has awakened the Bund, which has been sleeping for many years, and Chinese and foreign financial institutions have also seized the Bund. Shanghai made a major initiative of "clearing the nest to attract phoenix", the Bund Financial Street housing replacement, to attract the "old customers" at home and abroad to come back to settle, and then show the Far East "Wall Street" style. The Bund is the symbol of Shanghai.　The Bund is the symbol of Shanghai and a must-visit place for tourists from home and abroad. But in the past, due to the narrow roads and overcrowding of pedestrians and vehicles, the overall image of the Bund was seriously affected. In order to change the face of the Bund, the Shanghai People's Government took the Bund as a key to remodeling. The road in front of us is called Zhongshan Yi Road, named in honor of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the pioneer of the Chinese democratic revolution, and is part of the comprehensive transformation of the Bund. The road is 826 meters long and 45 meters wide, with 6 to 10 lanes. This wide transportation line is not just limited to the Bund area, it has been extended along with the pace of reform and opening up, starting from Jiangwan Wujiaochang in the north and arriving at Nanpu Bridge in the south. By the beginning of the next century, this north-south corridor will be 15 kilometers long, and will become the iconic landscape of Shanghai's tourism and sightseeing.　We are now walking on this riverfront boulevard is quite unique. It is not only a collection of culture, green in one, but also the morning is a good place for people to practice martial arts, the daytime is the world of domestic and foreign tourists sightseeing tours, the night is the ideal place for couples to talk about love, I heard that there are many foreign friends have come to experience life.　Dear guests, strolling in the new Bund sightseeing area,