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  Huangpu River Cruise, Huangpu River, Cruise on the Huangpu River
Huangpu River, a symbol of Shanghai, originates in Dianshan Lake and empties into the Yangtze River at Wusongkou (mouth of Wusong River).
The west bank (Puxi) of the Huangpu River is the cultural, residential and entertainment center of Shanghai.
The east bank of the river (Pudong) is the newer district of Shanghai and its financial and commercial hub.
www.travelchinaguide.com /cruise/huangpuriver   (509 words)

  
 Huangpu River
Huangpu River, Whangpoo, or Hwangpoo river, 97 km long, rising in the lake district of Shanghai Municipality, East China, and flowing northeast past Shanghai into the Chang estuary at Wusong.
The river, yellow in color and ice-free all the year round, totals 114 kilometers long, and averages 400 meters wide and 9 meters deep.
Huangpu River is also a major water source for Shanghai, and as the city has grown it has suffered from water shortages and polluted drinking water; in 1996 a project to divert water from the Chang River (Yangtze) to the Huangpu River was completed.
www.china-cruise.com /huangpu.htm   (0 words)

  
 Huangpu River and the Bund: Shanghai Tourist Attractions
Shanghai -- Huangpu River and the Bund --
The yellow and ice-free Huangpu River is 114 kilometers (71 miles) long, 400 meters (0.25 miles) wide and has an average depth of nine meters (30 feet).
Walking along the Bund, which is at the west shore of the Huangpu River, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower can be seen on the opposite side and also the Jin Mao Tower.Being one of the Top Ten Shanghai Attractions, the Bund is a really beautiful and special place which is worth visiting.
www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/shanghai/huangpu.htm   (0 words)

  
  Broken Huangpu River floodwall endangers Shanghai
The broken floodwall by the Huangpu River is still not fully out of danger, given the combined effects of river tides and ongoing ground subsidence in the area, said city officials.
A dyke is broken by the Huangpu River in Shanghai on July 2, 2003.
The river was being kept at bay as of Thursday afternoon by a sandbag wall five metres high and nearly 100 metres long, built at the outer eastern side of the floodwall to face the river water directly.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /en/doc/2003-07/04/content_242890.htm   (453 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Huangpu River   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Shanghai -- Huangpu River and the Bund --
Huangpu River, the most important shipping artery of Shanghai, wriggles like an undulating muddy dragon from the mouth of the Yangtze River in Wusong to the East China Sea.
Huangpu River, Whangpoo, or Hwangpoo river, 97 km long, rising in the lake district of Shanghai Municipality, East China, and flowing northeast past Shanghai into the Chang estuary at Wusong.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Huangpu-River   (453 words)

  
 Huangpu River : Shanghai Travel Guide
Huangpu River, the most important shipping artery of Shanghai, wriggles like an undulating muddy dragon from the mouth of the Yangtze River in Wusong to the East China Sea.
The yellow and ice-free Huangpu River is 114 kilometers (71 miles) long, 400 meters wide and has an average depth of nine meters (30 feet).
Huangpu River joins 29 kilometers (18 miles) north of downtown Shanghai and divides Shanghai into two parts, east and west.
www.lonelychina.com /shanghai/shanghai-huangpu.html   (201 words)

  
 Shanghai Bund & China Huangpu River - Tour Shanghai Bund
The 97km long Huangpu river is Shanghai city's shipping artery to the east china Sea and to the mouth of Yangtze River.
On the west shore of Huangpu River is the world famous Shanghai Bund, and on the eastern shore is the Pudong New Area.
A wide street curves along the western bank of the Huangpu river, and along the street are old style european and western buildings.
www.travelchinatour.com /shanghai-china/shanghai-bund.htm   (353 words)

  
 Huangpu River Cruise, Huangpu River, Cruise on the Huangpu River
Huangpu River, a symbol of Shanghai, originates in Dianshan Lake and empties into the Yangtze River at Wusongkou (mouth of Wusong River).
The east bank of the river (Pudong) is the newer district of Shanghai and its financial and commercial hub.
The 'three-layer waters' is formed by the convergence of Huangpu River (gray white), Yangtze River (yellow) and the East Sea (green) during high tide.
travelchinaguide.com /cruise/huangpuriver   (437 words)

  
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The yellow and ice-free Huangpu River is 114 kilometers (71 miles) long, 400 meters wide and has an average depth of nine meters (30 feet).
Huangpu River joins 29 kilometers (18 miles) north of downtown Shanghai and divides Shanghai into two parts, east and west.
It starts from the Baidu Bridge, which is at the connecting point of the Huangpu River and the Suzhou Creek, to the East Jinling Road and winds a 1500 meters (less than one mile) length.
www.cbby.org /english/cbby/sh_hpj.html   (364 words)

  
 Shanghai : Huangpu River Cruise   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Huangpu River (Huangpu Jiang) is the city's shipping artery both to the East China Sea and to the mouth of the Yangzi River, which the Huangpu joins 29km (18 miles) north of downtown Shanghai.
There are also shorter river cruises (1-2 hr.) that ply the main waterfront area between the two suspension bridges, Yangpu Qiao in the north and Nanpu Qiao in the south, and an even shorter (30-min.) cruise from Pudong.
The Huangpu is, on the average, just 183m (600 ft.) wide, but more than 2,000 oceangoing ships compete with the 20,000 barges, fishing junks, and rowboats that ply the Huangpu every year.
www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=717&catID=0717023877   (1329 words)

  
 Investment & Development   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Pudong is along the estuary of the Yangtze River and opposite to the centre of Shanghai on the west side of the Huangpu River.
The Pudong New Area is a triangular area adjacent to the city proper, stretching to the east of the Huangpu River, to the southwest of the Yangtze estuary,including the former country of Chuansha and former Sanlin village of Minhang district.
Pudong borders on the sea in the east and on the Huangpu River in the west.
www.shme.com /district/pudong/pudong.htm   (479 words)

  
 Beauty, the Land of China - Shanghai
The Huangpu River is the symbol of Shanghai, and a cruise on the it is a must on the tourist itinerary in Shanghai.
Huangpu tour boats depart from the dock on the Bund, slightly north of the Peace hotel.
The garden is acknowledged as both "an architectural miracle in the region south of Yangtze River" and "an elite garden in southeast China".
library.thinkquest.org /20443/shanghai.html   (1559 words)

  
 Development of Huangpu River to Focus on Four Key Zones (tdctrade.com)
According to Shanghai's leading group for the development of the Huangpu River, the comprehensive development of river bank areas has been progressing positively and steadily this year since the project was kicked off last year.
Shanghai has all along adhered to the principle of "internationalisation" in planning the development of the Huangpu river banks as "the pride of the century".
The scope of planning has been extended northwards and southwards from the Wusong River estuary to the Xupu Bridge along a 42.5 km stretch of the river, with a waterfront length of about 85 km and a total area of 73.3 sq km.
www.tdctrade.com /alert/cba-e0406y4.htm   (0 words)

  
 Shanghai The Bund
A wide embankment lies on one side parallel to the world-famous Huangpu River, known as the mother river of Shanghai, which rises in the Tai Lake, Jiangsu Province, Hows through the urban area of the city and empties into the mouth of the Yangtze River, with a total length of 112 kilometers.
Huangpu River Cruise has been regarded as one of the most important and traditional tourist activities at night.
It is known to all that the beautiful Huangpu River, also called the mother of this metropolis, embodies all the quintessences of Shanghai's attractive scenes.
www.geocities.com /shanghai2005eng/bund/bundkod.html   (715 words)

  
 Shanghai Tourism
Huangpu River ranges 114 kilometers from Dingshan Lake, the source, northward to Wusong Kou, where it converges with the Yangtze River.
The river is the blood of Shanghai, the city stays alive based upon its existence.
Longhua Temple is on the west bank of the Huangpu Jiang river inLonghua district in southern Shanghai.
www.newconcept.com /CultureExchange/china_tour/shanghai/Shanghai.html   (1119 words)

  
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Administrative organs of development along the banks of the Huangpu River in related districts (hereinafter referred to as DDAO) are responsible for the specific work in organizing, coordinating, supervising and inspecting the development and construction within their respective jurisdictions, subject to the guidance of SHRO in professional affairs.
The planning of core area and coordinated area along the banks of the Huangpu River must be subject to the overall planning along the banks of the Huangpu River; whereas the planning of coordinated area must dovetail and coordinate with that of the core area.
The land-using units and individual persons within the development scope along the banks of the Huangpu River must be subordinate to, and cooperative in the implementation of, the planning along the banks of the Huangpu River.
www.shanghai.gov.cn /shanghai/node8059/Rules&Laws/userobject6ai1294.html   (1421 words)

  
 China today
In the past, Pudong generally referred to the area east of the Huangpu River, the old city west of the river being known as Puxi.
The 114-km-long Huangpu is the mother river of Shanghai.
Today the banks of the Huangpu River are connected by three bridges and two tunnels, and are accessible via subway and light-railways, elevated ring roads, and maglev trains.
www.chinatoday.com.cn /English/e20034/pudong.htm   (1759 words)

  
 Huangpu Hotels by SmartStays - Lowest room rates and hotel reservations
Huangpu District has carried on its time-honored tradition in the same direction with modern living.
Hongkou, situated on the Huangpu River to the north of the Bund and directly opposite the most striking skyscrapers in Pudong, is an area of multi-cultural fascination.
Chongqing is located on the edge of the Yungui Plateau, intersected by the Jialing River and the upper reaches of the Yangtze.
www.asia-hotel.net /huangpu-shanghai-china   (1822 words)

  
 Integrating Environmental Considerations into the Economic Decision-Making Process
The average concentration of inorganic N and inorganic P in the mouth of the Yangtze River was 623 ug/L and 207 ug/L respectively; in the HangZhou Bay it was 1039 ug/L and 39.5 ug/L respectively.
The monitoring sections along the Huangpu River are fixed at DianFeng, SongPu Bridge, LinJiang waterworks, NanShi waterworks, YangPu Bridge, and Wusong—the mouth of the Huangpu River, where 16 variables are monitored.
In the water source conservation area of the upper reaches of the Huangpu River are located the Diangfeng and Songpu sections, the latter being one of the important under-construction sources of drinking water in Shanghai.
www.unescap.org /drpad/publication/integra/modalities/china/4ch03a01.htm   (1226 words)

  
 Huangpu - Encyclopedia.com
Huangpu or Whampoa, city, S Guangdong prov., SE China, on an island in the Pearl River.
The Huangpu (Whampoa) Military Academy, founded there in 1924 as a Kuomintang training center, was organized by Chiang Kai-shek.
Huangpu Military School alumni marks 140th birth anniversary of Sun Yat-sen in Nanjing.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Huangpu.html   (376 words)

  
 Shanghai Districts
As the oldest district in Shanghai, the Huangpu District is the center of administration, culture and trades, as well as the most extravagant area in Shanghai.
It’s proximity to Hongqiao Airport and Huangpu River, which runs through the area from north to south, contribute to the convenience of the transportation of the area.
On the east of Huangpu River and west of the mouth of Yangtze River, Pudong District is a fast growing area of 556 square kilometers.
www.huayurealty.com /useful/shanghai_districts_en.htm   (3826 words)

  
 Nantong
The Huangpu is 114 kilometer(70 miles) in length, rising from Dianshan Lake southwest of Shanghai.
The river is subject to heavy silting from Yangtze and requires constant dredging to keep the channels free.
Soon after entering the river, on the western bank is the area known as Wusong, where in 1842, during the Opium War, a fleet of British warships and support vessels hour bombardment they forced their way up to Suzhou Creek and on to Shanghai.
www.discoveryangtze.com /Yangtzediscovery/nantong.htm   (628 words)

  
 Riding a Dragon down the Huangpu River
The Shanghai Huangpu River Cruise Company can satisfy that desire as you are transported on the water through picturesque scenery.
I saw the banks of the river recede in the distance with no sense of rocking or shaking from the boat.
The boat headed to the mouth of the Yangtze River as the guide explained in Chinese what we were seeing on the one-hour cruise.
www.china.org.cn /english/LI-e/18940.htm   (0 words)

  
 Chinese Architecture: Shanghai Bund, Shanghai
Pudong, on the east side of the Huangpu River is one of the world's busiest construction zones.
But their old buildings are newly appreciated, with even brass plates outlining their previous use, and efforts are being made to bring elements of the international community back to where it started in the Bund, as well as on the Pudong side.
Both sides of the Huangpu River reflect important aspects of Shanghai's heritage--its past, present and future.
www.orientalarchitecture.com /shanghai/SHABUND.htm   (0 words)

  
 Other Sites, Shanghai, Regent Tour China
The Pudong area of Shanghai is directly east and across the Huangpu River from the rest of Shanghai.
The Huangpu River begins in Lake Tai west of Shanghai and meets the Yangtze river 70 miles downstream.
Shanghai is on the Huangpu and is 17 miles upstream from the Yangtze.
www.regenttour.com /chinaplanner/sha/sha-sights-others.htm   (938 words)

  
 Shanghai/Bund - Wikitravel
Located on the west bank of the Huangpu River, there are excellent views of Pudong's skyscrapers from the perennially packed promenade of the Bund.
Huangpu Park (黄浦公园 Huángpǔgōngyuán)), at the northern tip of the Bund, was the legendary home of the "No dogs or Chinese" sign — which in fact never existed, although Chinese not accompanied by foreigners were indeed banned until 1928.
Huangpu river cruise - Available at the Bund's southern end ferry port in a large variety: One hour, two hour and three hour cruises on the Huangpu.
wikitravel.org /en/Shanghai/Bund   (999 words)

  
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The maximal tidal inflow entering Huangpu River through Wusong Kou is 12,100 m3/s, and the largest tide outflow is 6,000 m3/s, among which about 90% of water released are tidal flow.
Pollution load in the Huangpu River water system was the receiving of about 4.0 million m 3/d of sewage in the 1980s.
Though discharging effluent into the Huangpu River may be affected by tidal flow, according to mathematical modelling, under the most unfavourable hydrological circumstance, the trace up distance is still 15 - 17 km left from the upstream Water intake, so that it would not affect the safety of the drinking water source upstream.
www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2002/03/01/000094946_02022104015878/Rendered/INDEX/multi0page.txt   (10512 words)

  
 Pudong pictures and videos on Webshots
Shanghai 28.12.05 - Pudong from The Bund 2
The Bund in icy drizzle with Pudong as the muted backdr...
Huangpu River as viewed from 53/F, Jin Mao Tower, Centu...
www.webshots.com /search?query=Pudong   (498 words)

  
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Huangpu River in Shanghai is sparing no efforts to catch up with Seine in Paris by developing views and sceneries along the river to attract more and more tourists.
With the kicking off of comprehensive exploration along the Huangpu River, the development of urban tourism in Shanghai and the success of bidding for the Expo2010, more visitors are welling in the city, which becomes a powerful driving force for tourism along the Huangpu River.
And this year it is expected to have as many as 2 million visitors to the River., which will bring in a handsome profit as a result.
www.expo2010china.com /expo/english/eu/eh/userobject1ai18167.html   (290 words)

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