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| How did the name "Waterfront" Come about? |
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In the terminology used for the place names of Shanghai it used to call the upper reaches era river as the "inner" while the lower reaches the "outer." The Huangpu River made an abrupt turn to the north somewhere near the present-day Lujiabang Road, for which the old record called tile upper reach of the river, west of the Lujiahang Road the "Iuner Huangpu" while the lower reach, east of the road the "Outer Huangpu," During the antedates to the beginning el tile Qing Dynasty the inner-side beaches along the Huangpu River were all called the "Outer Huangpu." but towards the period of Daoguang's reign, the "Outer Huangpu Beaches" south el the eastern gate were built into |
| a wharf area and the Huangpu beaches ceased to exit any more. And then the area used to he called the Huangpu Beaches started to diminish gradually to a section stretching from the Xinkaihe outside the eastern gate to Waibaidu Bridge on the north bank of the Suzhou River. From then on the Huangpu Beaches were shortened as the "Waterfront," known in China, se as "Waitan" or the "Bund," which means a road along the river or an embankment fnr taking a walk. driving carts and handling port husinesses in the eyes of Ihe westerners. |
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| When was the Oriental Pearl TV Tower built? |
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Towering on tbe eastern hank of the tluangpu River and opposite the “Exposition of Many Architectural Styles from Various Countries" along the Band, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower started to be built from Jul. 30, 1991 and brought to completion on Oct. 1 , 1994. Thrusting 468 meters into the sky. it is the No. 1 high tower in Asia and the third in the woHd. Rich in imagination the designer showed his ingenuity in stringing together the 11 spheroids big and snlall from the blue down to the ground with green lawns yet with the two brilliant and ruby-like spheroids raised high in tile sky, making the whole tower look like an integrity, suggesting a sense of beauty in which one feels like "pearls big |
| and small falling into a plate of jade. "The Oriental Pearl TV Tower consists mainly of three large pillars of nine-meters in diameter, a pedestal, a lower spheroid, an upper spheroid and a space-cabin. The tower pedestal is composed of a grand lobby of some 3. 000 square meters and a supermarket of almost 20, O0O square meters. The diameter of the lower spheroid is 50 meters with its first-floor for scenic view areade located at 98 meters above sea level and the other floors installed with advanced equipment for amusements. |
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