Shanghai overview

Shanghai is modern China. The city at the spearhead of world’s fastest changing country, Shanghai is the global pace-setter for the modern metropolis, a heady poster child for the new cultural and commercial revolution. However, look closely and you will find evidence of a colonial socialite past which lie beneath a quarter of all the cranes in the world. Shanghai, for all its archetypal modernization, still houses historic ruins and temples which provide a welcome diversion from the sheer grandeur of today’s skyline. Days can be spent neck craned in wonderment at the dedication to modernity, the ambition to make the city the hippest, coolest, brashest and most attractive for personal or professional pleasure anywhere on earth. Shanghai may be based in the past but it is unashamedly China’s future. As rivals such as Dubai implode, Shanghai is again the place to be.