It’s true that Shanghai is foremost a business city, but there’s much to capture the traveller’s imagination – old world architecture combined with an ultra-modern skyline, those excellent shops and a cultural scene that’s beginning to rival Beijing’s.
Shanghai has acquired some colourful nicknames over the years – ‘Whore of The Orient,’ and ‘Paris of the East,’ for instance
people here prefer to label it ‘the Dragon Head’ of East China - the powerhouse driving the economy forward. Shanghai is one of the world's great cities, with a colourful past, a frenetic present and a future that will see it eventually back on top of the world as a major international financial and trading centre.
