District of Pudong

Pudong , or more officially the new district of Pudong (浦东新区; Pinyin: Pǔdōng Xīn Qū) is a district of the autonomous municipality of Shanghai in China. It is separated from the traditional center of the city, Puxi, by the river Huangpu. It measures 522 km ² (approximately five intramural Paris times) and counts approximately: 2500000 inhabitants (a little more than intramural Paris).

Pudong means " in the east of the fleuve".

In 1990, the district of Pudong included/understood only huts of rice growers, shipyards with the abandonment and hangars in ruin. After decades of negligence, the Chinese government decided to open a “special economic zone” in the district, supporting the rise of a large district of businesses, named Lujiazui.

In 15 years, more than 7000 Chinese and foreign companies were established in the district at the sides of large international hotels like the Hyatt or the Novotel. More than 1,5 million Chinese then were established in Pudong whose annual economic growth exceeded the 17% with the beginning of the year 2000.

One finds today in this district in full construction of the buildings, symbols of the Chinese economic advancement like the Perle of the East (1995, 468 meters), the turn Jin Mao (1996, 420 meters, 88 stages) and the Shanghai World Financial Center (in construction, 492 meters and 101 stages in 2008).

The principal artery of Pudong is the avenue of the century (Century avenue or Shiji CAD)

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