Most cities in China have different names. One of them has the name of "magic city". Which city is magic city? Which city in China is called magic city? The answer is Shanghai. Why is Shanghai called "magic city"?
Which city is Mordor?
It's Shanghai.
Mordor was one of the nicknames of Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s. Compared with the Western appellations of the great city of the Far East and Paris of the Orient, Mordor was a customary Japanese appellation of Shanghai at that time. In the early 20th century, Murakami suofeng, a Japanese writer living in Shanghai, first called Shanghai as Mordor. Tsumatsufeng is probably the first person to call Shanghai the magic capital. Therefore, the word magic capital is used by many people to describe the complicated and confusing world of Shanghai. In this work, Murakami shofeng invented the word "magic capital" to refer to Shanghai.
Shanghai is a provincial administrative region of the people's Republic of China. Shanghai is the birthplace of the Communist Party of China, a national historical and cultural city, and China's economic, financial, trade, shipping, scientific and technological innovation center. Shanghai is located in East China, between 120 & deg; 52 & prime; - 122 & deg; 12 & prime;, 30 & deg; 40 & prime; - 31 & deg; 53 & prime;, at the mouth of the Yangtze River, facing Japan's Kyushu Island across the East China Sea in the East, Hangzhou Bay in the south, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the north and West, with a total area of 6340.5 square kilometers.
Shanghai is located in the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, the east coast of the Asian continent, the front edge of the Yangtze River Delta, and the middle of China's north-south arc coastline. It is located in the alluvial plain of the Yangtze River Delta, with an average altitude of 4 meters. There are Tianma mountain, Xueshan mountain, Fenghuang Mountain and other remnant hills in the West. Tianma mountain is the highest elevation point of the land. Shanghai is located across the Yangtze River Estuary, Dianshan Lake, Huangpu River and Wusong River, with rivers, lakes and ponds alternating. Shanghai has a subtropical monsoon climate, mild and humid, with four distinct seasons, sufficient sunshine and abundant rainfall.
Shanghai is rated as a first tier city by GaWC, a British think tank. By the end of 2018, the total number of permanent residents in Shanghai was 24.2378 million. The Gross Regional Product (GDP) was 3267.987 billion yuan, an increase of 6.6% over the previous year. The total retail sales of social consumer goods is 1266.869 billion yuan, the sales of wholesale industry is 10.79 trillion yuan, the per capita disposable income is 64183 yuan, the total household deposits is 2856.924 billion yuan, and the total number of high-tech enterprises is 9206.
Ancient history of Shanghai
Shanghai
Qin and Han Dynasties and later successively belonged to Kuaiji County, Wu County, Haiyan County, Youquan county and Lou county.
In the tenth year of Tang Tianbao (751), Huating county was established by the governor of Wu County, and Shanghai had a relatively independent administrative division. Huating county is located in the south of Wusong River and the west of Chuansha Huinan Datun.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, Shanghai was divided into Huating county and Kunshan County, and Chongming County was Haimen county. In the 10th year of Xining of Song Dynasty (1077), Shanghai was set up.
Jiading County was established on the ninth day of December in the tenth year of Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty (January 7, 1218), and there were two independent administrative divisions in Shanghai.
From the Yuan Dynasty to the fourteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1277), Huating county was promoted as a prefecture. The next year, it was renamed Songjiang Prefecture, and it was still subordinate to Huating county. In the 29th year of Zhiyuan (1292), Shanghai county was under the jurisdiction of Songjiang Prefecture. Shanghai county covers an area of about 2000 square kilometers. It is located in the urban area south of the old Wusong River, most of Qingpu County, most of Minhang District, most of Pudong New Area and Nanhui County. In the late Yuan Dynasty, there were Songjiangfu, Jiading and Chongming, Huating and Shanghai counties in Shanghai.
At the end of Ming Dynasty, there were Songjiang Prefecture, Huating County, Shanghai county and Qingpu County, Jiading County and Chongming County, Jinshanwei county.
In 1726, there were eight counties in Songjiang Prefecture, Huating, Lou, Shanghai, Qingpu, Fengxian, Fuquan, Jinshan and Nanhui, and two counties in Taicang Prefecture, Jiading and Baoshan.
In the 10th year of Jiaqing (1805), Shanghai basically formed a pattern of 10 counties and 1 Department, including Huating, Shanghai, Qingpu, Lou, Fengxian, Jinshan, Nanhui, Chuansha Fumin Department of Songjiang Prefecture, and Jiading, Chongming and Baoshan counties of Taicang Prefecture. Jiaqing 15 years (1810) shrink 600 square kilometers, the county is about the south of the old Wusong River, the urban area, most of Pudong New Area, most of Minhang District. The county seat is within the ring line of Renmin Road and Zhonghua Road in the former southern urban area.
In the 23rd year of Daoguang (1843), Shanghai was opened as a port. In the 25th year of Daoguang (1845), the area to the north of Yangjingbang in Shanghai county was designated as a residence for foreigners, and then the British concession was formed. In 1848, Hongkou was designated as the US concession.