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The National Time Service Center in Mount Li, Lintong, Xi'an, Shaanxi. In the 1870s, the Shanghai Xujiahui Observatory was constructed by a French Catholic missionary. In 1880s officials in Shanghai French Concession started to provide a time announcement service using the Shanghai Mean Solar Time provided by the aforementioned observatory for ships into and out of Shanghai.
Shanghai is also a domestic immigration city—40.3% (9.8 million) of the city's residents are from other regions of China. [155] Shanghai has a life expectancy of 83.18 years for the city's registered population, [188] the highest life expectancy of all cities in mainland China.
The current photograph was created after he took three pictures in the monumental atrium of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Shanghai, China. He afterwards used digital manipulation of the images taken of the hotel first three floors to give the background the same resolution as the foreground.
In 1928, Shanghai City (the Old City) was reduced to district status under the Special Municipality. In 1930, Shanghai County became a separate parallel administrative unit to the Special Municipality, and the county government was moved out to Minhang. This was the end of the Old City's role as the seat of government of Shanghai.
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Shanghai's first building boom occurred in the 1920s and 1930s, during the city's heyday as a multinational center of business and finance. [5] The city's international concessions permitted foreign investment, and with it came architectural styles from the West , as seen today in areas such as the French Concession and the Bund . [ 6 ]
A 1933 map of the Bund. The Bund [a] is a waterfront area and a protected historical district in central Shanghai.The area centers on a section of Zhongshan Road (East Zhongshan Road No.1) within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River in the eastern part of Huangpu.
The Dàjìng Gé Pavilion wall, which is the only remaining part of the Old City of Shanghai wall The history of Shanghai spans over a thousand years and closely parallels the development of modern China. Originally a small agricultural village, Shanghai developed during the late Qing dynasty (1644–1912) as one of China's principal trading ports. Although nominally part of China, in practice ...