Shanghai in the Spring and Autumn Period belonged to the State of Wu, while Shanghai in the Warring States Period belonged to the State of Yue first and then to the State of Chu. Chu Gaolie took Huang Xie as the prime minister and named him Chun Shen Jun. Shanghai was part of his fief, hence the nickname "Shen".
Another nickname of Shanghai is "Shanghai", which comes from "the capital of Shanghai". In ancient times, fishermen in Shanghai invented a bamboo fishing gear "Hu". At that time, there was no place name of Shanghai, and this area was called "Lake Capital".
The real origin of the name "Shanghai" began in the Song Dynasty. At that time, Shanghai began to become a new trading port of China. At that time, there were 18 pubs in Shanghai, one of which was called Shanghai Pupu, and there was a small town in Shanghai on the west bank of Huangpu River from the Bund to Shiliupu. This is the origin of the name "Shanghai".
In the Yuan Dynasty, the towns in Shanghai developed greatly, and a city shipping company was established. Since then, Shanghai Town has been upgraded to Shanghai County. In Ming Dynasty, Shanghai became the largest center of cotton textile industry in China, and its commercial economy was increasingly developed. In the 24th year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1685), the Qing government set up a customs office in Shanghai. During the Qianlong and Jiaqing years of Qing Dynasty, Shanghai gradually became a big trading port and grain transportation center of China, and was called "the city of southeast".
1843 After the Opium War, Shanghai was forcibly opened as a trading port by colonialists. 1845, Britain first established a concession in Shanghai. After that, the United States set up a concession in Shanghai. 1849, France also established a concession in Shanghai. 1863, after the British and American concessions merged into public concessions, Shanghai was actually divided into three parts: Chinese territory, public concessions and French concessions. In the years after 1843 100, Shanghai became the main port for foreign colonists to dump goods and find raw materials and money in China, so Shanghai also had an "adventurer's paradise".
On July 7th, 1927, Shanghai Special City was announced. 1 930 July1day, Shanghai was formally established. 1945 After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, the concession was taken back. 1May 27, 949, Shanghai was liberated. After long-term unremitting transformation and construction by successive governments and people in Shanghai, Shanghai has become an important industrial and commercial base in new China.
20 years after the reform and opening up (1978- 1998), especially after China's chief architect of reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping 1993, Shanghai has developed with each passing day, becoming the economic, financial, scientific, technological, information and cultural center of China, and an international modern metropolis is taking shape.
Extended Information Shanghai, referred to as "Shanghai" or "Shen" for short, is the birthplace of China, a municipality directly under the Central Government of the People's Republic of China, a national central city, a megacity, a core city of Shanghai, Hangzhou and Ningbo, an international economic, financial, trade, shipping and scientific and technological innovation center, and the first batch of coastal open cities.
Located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, Shanghai is the leading city in the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the core city of G60 Science and Technology Corridor. It faces Kyushu Island across the East China Sea, with Hangzhou Bay in the south and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the northwest.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Shanghai was the fief of Huang Xie, the king of Chu, so it was also called Shen. During the Jin Dynasty in the 4th and 5th centuries, because fishermen created a fishing tool "Hu", the place where the river flowed into the sea was called "blasphemy", so the downstream area of Songjiang was called "Hu" and later changed to "Shanghai", so Shanghai was called "Shanghai" for short. Huating County was founded in the Tang Dynasty. Shanghai is a famous historical and cultural city in China. The cultures of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and wuyue combined with the industrial culture introduced from the west to form a unique Shanghai culture. After 1843, Shanghai became an open commercial port and rapidly developed into the largest city in the Far East.
Shanghai covers a total area of 6340 square kilometers, governs 16 municipal districts, and has a subtropical humid monsoon climate. Shanghai's GDP ranks first in China and second in Asia, second only to Tokyo. Shanghai is a world-famous financial center and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world. Shanghai was rated as the first-tier city in the world by GaWC.
Shanghai's total household deposits and per capita household deposits rank second in the country? . In 20 17, the total number of high-tech enterprises in Shanghai reached 7642, ranking first in Forbes' list of the best commercial cities in Chinese mainland in 20 17.
The container throughput of Shanghai Port ranks first in the world, and it has the first China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone in Chinese mainland. Shanghai, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang together constitute the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, which is one of the six largest urban agglomerations in the world.
Shanghai is located between east longitude120 52' and north latitude12212', covering an area of 6,340 square kilometers. It is located on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, the eastern edge of the Asian continent, the midpoint between the north and south coasts of China and the confluence of the Yangtze River and Huangpu River. It borders the Yangtze River in the north, the East China Sea in the east, Hangzhou Bay in the south and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the west.
Shanghai has a subtropical monsoon climate with four distinct seasons, abundant sunshine and rainfall. Shanghai has a mild and humid climate, with shorter spring and autumn and longer winter and summer. In 20 13 years, the city's average temperature 17.6℃, sunshine 1885.9 hours, and precipitation1kloc-0/73.4 mm. More than 60% of the annual rainfall is concentrated in the flood season from May to September.
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Shanghai-Baidu Encyclopedia