Shanghai Night Walk from the Bund View to East Nanjing Road Walking Tour 2022 [4K] 上海外滩南京路中国

The Bund or Waitan 外滩 is a waterfront area and a protected historical district in central Shanghai. The area centers on a section of Zhongshan Road within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River in the eastern part of Huangpu District. The area along the river faces the modern skyscrapers of Lujiazui in the Pudong District. The Bund usually refers to the buildings and wharves on this section of the road, as good as some adjacent areas. From the 1860s to the 1930s, it was the rich and powerful center of the foreign establishment in Shanghai, operating as a legally protected treaty port. The Shanghai Bund has dozens of historical buildings, lining the Huangpu River, that once housed numerous banks and trading houses from the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Italy, Russia, Federal Republic of Germany, State of Japan, the Netherlands, and Kingdom of Belgium, as good as the consulates of Russia and Britain, a newspaper, the Shanghai Club and the Masonic Club. The Bund lies north of the old, walled city of Shanghai. It was initially a British settlement; later the British and American settlements were combined in the International Settlement. Magnificent commercial buildings in the Beaux Arts style sprang upwardly in the years around the turn of the 20th century as the Bund developed into a major financial center of east Asia. Directly to the south, and just northeast of the old walled city, the former French Bund (the quai de France, part of the Shanghai French Concession) was of comparable size to the Bund but functioned more as a working harbourside.

Nanjing Road (南京路) is a road in Shanghai, the eastern part of which is the main shopping district of Shanghai. It is one of the world’s busiest shopping streets, along with Fifth Avenue, Oxford Street, Takeshita Street and the Champs-Élysées. The street is named after the city of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province neighbouring Shanghai, and the former national capital of the Republic of China. Today’s Nanjing Road comprises 2 sections, Nanjing Road East and Nanjing Road W.
In some contexts, “Nanjing Road” refers only to what was pre-1945 Nanjing Road, today’s Nanjing Road East, which is largely pedestrianised. Before the adoption of the pinyin romanisation in the 1950s, its name was rendered as Nanking Road in English. The former Nanking Road lay entirely within the Shanghai International Settlement. Today’s Nanjing Road W was formerly Bubbling good Road, an extra-settlement road built by concession authorities outside the concession proper. The 2 roads met on the northern edge of the Shanghai Race Club.

The History of Nanjing Road can be traced back to the yr 1845. At that time it was called “Park Lane”, which stretched from the Bund to He’nan Road. In 1854, it was extended to Zhejiang Road, and eight years later, once more extended to Xizang Road. In 1862, it was named formally “Nanking Road” by the Municipal Council, which administered the International Settlement. In Chinese it was usually referred to as the Main Road (大马路). Around 1930 it was a bustling street with at least one reported Netherlands Casino. In 1943 the International Settlement was annulled, and after World state of war II the government changed its name from Nanking Road to “East Nanjing Road”, meanwhile they also renamed the former Bubbling good Road “W Nanjing Road”, and the general name of the 2 roads became “Nanjing Road”, comprising five kilometres total length.
At the beginning of the 20th century, eight big department stores were established along the street. A series of franchised stores were also set upwardly at that time.
On 23 August 1937, a Chinese warplane attempting to bomb the Japanese ship Izumo missed its target, dropping four bombs onto the crowded nearby streets, 2 of which landed on Nanjing Road. Around 2,000 people were killed by the four bombs collectively.
In 2000, as a part of the development plan held by the local government, Nanjing Road was renovated to be a characteristic pedestrian street. The width is about 28 meters and the total length is 1,200 meters, which extends from Middle He’nan Road to Middle Xizang Road.
In 2007, the Jing’an and Huangpu governments agreed to coordinate their policy to enhance the development of Nanjing Road, through a unique launching of a committee. This agreement followed a request by the committee of Champs-Elysees in the perspective of a friendship agreement between both famous streets.
On December 6, 2019, the section between Middle Henan Road and No. 1 Zhongshan East Road are being remodeled into fully pedestrian zone. The eastern extension project was completed and opened since September 12, 2020.

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