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Subway No. one, the second, Line eight
Introduce
The people lie in the square of people of the city center of Shanghai to undergo the transformation on the square, the whole area is 140,000 square meters, Hiroad s culture of going, afforesting, beautifying for the activity centre of the cross-centennial an organic whole. Area of a network of rivers where the region to live in was the northwestern part of Shanghai, after Shanghai opened the port, it is capitalist at the time of the primitive accumulation that unexpectedly has recured Europe Enclose the ground Sports, and its People s Park of the north becomes horse race drawing rooms of the Far East first together. After the liberation of Shanghai, builds up people s square in the southern part of drawing room of horse race, the northern half is laid out into People s Park. In the 1990s, the people carried on the well-known writer, high starting point on the square Rebuild,the the ones world-class without being built up open multi-functional one city centre square. Before liberation but it is the horse race drawing room known far and wide on present people s square and People s Park. In 1861, director who had a ride on a horse in the federation at that time, Englishmen Huo Ge colluded with the British consul to Shanghai to put forward to platform of Shanghai Road, demand to mark the runway as horse race of a circle of land. Under the local government official s silent approvement in Qing Dynasty at that time, he spured the horse and raised the whip, from gate of the First Departmet Store shop now, having transferred westwards to the south and wrapped a big circle up, then enclose according to the trace of the horse s hoof, enclose 31.067 hectares of inner farmland by strong battle steed s way of the low price, force more than 30,000 peasant families to leave the home, have built up and is known as The Far East first Shanghai horse race Room . During Anti-Japanese War, here was once regarded as the military camp of the Japanese invading army, liberated the club becoming the American army again in wartime. Liberate for the first time the people s government retracts the drawing room of horse race, reconstruct into People s Park, people s square, people s main road,etc. progressively. The building of drawing room of horse race at that time has been made into the present library, reconstruct into the gymnasium in the stand, the gambling-den in the past is turned into the culture of people of Shanghai and place of the amusement. Enter the eighties, with the needs of reform and opening-up and city s development of Shanghai, transform people s square to bring into the agenda formally completely. Comprehensive improvement project forms a complete set and afforests construction for the subject building, municipal administration respectively on people s square. The subject building is seven now, that is in the central axis position in the north is the municipal mansion, that is in the original sports palace stand seat is Shanghai Grand Theater under construction. People square Northeastern side, is people s station on the square of subway. The southern side of people s main road, is three large-scale underground buildings sequentially, the southeast is the bringing underground store, it is the largest city type underground transformer substation of Asia to the south, the southwest is the largest underground garage parking of Shanghai. It is the Shanghai Museum of Art and History to be in that square central axis in the south of the people. People s municipal auxiliary facility in the square, has kept and rebuilted the road surface of granite 600 meters long, 32 meters wide at first, make the style and features of the main road of the people in the hearts of the people of Shanghai just the same as before. On both sides of main road, open up 5. The afforestation 5 meters wide isolates the island and 6. Non- flexible lane of 5 meters, and pave the pavement enameled. Have built up to the website for eight original public transportation routes on the road of Wusheng, the ones that sketch the contours of a arc type The moon island . The large-scale afforestation construction of people s square, make it integral with People s Park of 120,000 square meters, become two leaves of the city center of Shanghai Green lung ,Have improved the environment of the city center greatly. The square of people after transforming, record a new chapter of history in Shanghai, become cityscape with new vivid, new style and features of Shanghai. People s square is politics, the culture, commerce and traffic centre of Shanghai, she is like a flashing pearl, inlays on the heart position of the city of Shanghai gorgeously. The whole square is the music fountain of the domain of Shanghai, as the centre, on the axis of north and south with the base, the mansion of municipal government of the elevation model of three sections of types and Shanghai Museum of Art and History taking hemispherical dome as model origin stand erect and set up; Wait upon and set up fairy moving elegant Shanghai Urban Planning Exbition Center and sparkling and crystal-clear Shanghai Grand Theater in the east and the west of the mansion of municipal government. Dove of peace of 3,000 feather and a group of people or things green purpose of clump of People s Park around, green land of Yanzhong on the square, there are famous shop famous buildings such as numerous a shops, large brightness cinema, Art Museum, Shanghai, large world International Hotel, new worlds, cities with fame spreading far and wide,etc., form the city canvas of an American logical sequence American Huan together.
Round fountain and area of 320 square meters reach film of 80,000 square meters to afforest the ground in the middle of the square. Raise dove of peace of thousands of feather in west on the square, whenever festivals or holidays, visitors such as crucian carps, dove of peace and visitor play, has added the sedate and peaceful atmosphere for the square, make people pleasing. People s square is with functions such as brand-new administration, culture, ecology, traffic, commerce,etc. and solemn, widen, lucid and lively image, become the symbol of urban civilization of Shanghai. In 1995, were appraised as the ten new views of Shanghai of the 1990s With ten major scenic spots The first.