Wednesday, January 24, 2007

The Leisure and Entertainment Street at Wujiang Road

The Leisure and Entertainment Street at Wujiang Road is the only stereo leisure street in Shanghai that segregates pedestrians and vehicles and has a two-layer walking street. In recent years, the street, after renovation, has turned into a fashionable food street. Along the street are uniquely-shaped mobile stores and movable flowerbed and trees. The street is an integration of subway traffic, shopping and leisure, tourism and sightseeing, and square culture. It is a unique leisure street that attracts the attention of the people of Shanghai.

Yandang Road Pedestrian Leisure Street

Yandang Road Leisure Street is a branch street of the commercial street at Huaihai Road (Middle). It is also one of Shanghai’s first group of 24-hour pedestrian leisure streets. The gravel pavement, the mid-street coffee and tea bars, the Fuxing Park on the north of the street and the Shanghai-style architectural complex create a unique and romantic atmosphere typical of the European Continent, making tourists unable to tear themselves away from the beautiful scene. The Jinyanfang Entertainment Center at the street is a unique place for leisure and entertainment, with coffee bars, beauty salons, antique stores, and egg-tart bakers.

The Leisure Street at Hengshan Road

The Leisure Street at Hengshan Road was first constructed in 1922. In the 1920s and 1930s there had been many buildings of European architectural styles. At present, Hengshan Road is flanked by luxurious parasol trees and dozens of entertainment sites, making the road a well-known entertainment and leisure street in Shanghai.

The Cultural Celebrities’ Street at Duolun Road




Duolun Road is the cultural celebrities’ street in Shanghai, where such Chinese literary giants as Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Guo Moruo and Ye Shengtao and such leftist writers as Ding Ling and Rou Shi once lived and wrote. On 2nd, March 1930, the Chinese Leftist Literary Association, a revolutionary literary organization under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, was founded here. Today, the Doulun Road after renovation has turned into a cultural street featuring old-style buildings, residences and memorial halls of cultural celebrities, and non-governmental collection galleries.

Shanghai Xintiandi

Shanghai Xintiandi is located at Lane 181, Taicang Road. It covers a site area of 30,000 square meters. The previous old Shikumen has undergone restoration, making it integrate with modern and new buildings around and forming a unique area---Shikumen Xintiandi, which combines history, culture, tourism, food and beverage, business, entertainment, and residences. The difference and integration of the past and the present and of the East and West give Xintiandi endless charm, turning it into the most ideal place for foreign and domestic tourists to have a general view of the history, culture, and modern lifestyle of Shanghai and the best place for local citizens and foreigners of refined taste to meet and entertain themselves.