Lujiazui Financial District

Lujiazui Central Greenland, located at 717 Lujiazui Ring Road, Pudong New Area, is a rare open urban green space situated at the heart of Shanghai's skyscraper cluster. Covering approximately 100,000 square meters and planted with cool-season turf imported from Europe, it features a striking steel "Pearl" sculpture and a circular sunken plaza at its center. Surrounded by the Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai World Financial Center, and Shanghai Tower—the three tallest buildings in China—it creates a remarkable "city within a garden, garden within a city" experience. Connected to the Huangpu River, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, and the Riverside Promenade, it serves as a "green living room" for office workers and tourists alike, and is especially beautiful in spring when magnolias bloom and in autumn when ginkgo leaves turn golden.

The Oriental Pearl TV Tower, located at 1 Century Avenue, Pudong New Area, stands 467.9 meters tall and was opened in 1994, ranking as the 6th tallest tower in Asia and 9th in the world. Its structure consists of three 9-meter-diameter pillars and three spheres of varying sizes connected by space capsules, creating the iconic "large and small pearls falling on a jade plate" silhouette that has become a symbol of Shanghai's skyline. The tower features the Main Observation Deck (263m), the transparent Sky Walk (259m), the Space Capsule (351m), the outdoor Observation Deck (350m), a Revolving Restaurant (267m), and the Shanghai Museum of Urban Development History, making it one of the best vantage points for viewing Shanghai's day and night scenery on both sides of the Huangpu River. The plaza at its base hosts various city festivals, and the "Dynamic Shanghai" multimedia show inside provides an immersive experience of Shanghai's century-long urban transformation.

The Shanghai Ocean Aquarium, located at 1388 Lujiazui Ring Road, Pudong New Area, is adjacent to the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. With a building area of approximately 20,500 square meters, it opened in 2002 and is one of the largest and most diverse ocean aquariums in Asia. The facility features 9 themed exhibition zones including Asia, South America, Australia, Africa, Cold Water, Coastline, Deep Sea, and China zones, housing over 15,000 rare marine creatures from more than 450 species. Its most famous feature is the 155-meter-long underwater viewing tunnel—certified by Guinness World Records as one of the world's longest ocean tunnels—where visitors can watch sharks, rays, and sea turtles swim overhead through transparent acrylic panels. The aquarium also features the Jellyfish Kingdom, Coral Sea, and Antarctic Penguin exhibits, making it an ideal destination for families, couples, and marine life enthusiasts.

Jin Mao Tower, located at 88 Century Avenue, Pudong New Area, stands 420.5 meters tall with 88 above-ground floors and 3 basement levels. Completed and opened in 1999, it was the first building in mainland China to exceed 400 meters. Designed by the American architectural firm SOM, the building draws inspiration from classical Chinese pagodas with its tiered, tapering form, creating a "fountain pen tip" silhouette. Its facade combines aluminum alloy and granite curtain walls, making it highly recognizable. The complex integrates offices, hotels, sightseeing, and commerce, featuring the Grand Hyatt Shanghai (floors 53-87), the 88th-floor Observation Deck, and the spectacular 152-meter-tall "Time Tunnel" light corridor. From the 88th-floor observation deck, visitors can enjoy a 360-degree panoramic view of Shanghai, with the historic Bund and Lujiazui skyscrapers all visible. At night, the building's illuminated peak becomes one of Shanghai's most iconic skyline features.

Shanghai World Financial Center, located at 100 Century Avenue, Pudong New Area, stands 492 meters tall with 101 above-ground floors and 3 basement levels, fully opened in August 2008. Designed by Japan's Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), the building is nicknamed the "Bottle Opener" due to its distinctive trapezoidal aperture at the top. As one of the Lujiazui "Trio" skyscrapers, it integrates offices, hotels, sightseeing, and commerce, housing the Park Hyatt Shanghai (floors 79-93), observation decks on floors 94/97/100, and the "Sky Walk 100" experience at 492 meters. The 100th-floor observation sky lobby was certified by Guinness World Records as the world's highest observation deck, offering a 360-degree panoramic view at 474 meters. Its transparent glass-floor sky walk provides an exhilarating experience. Together with Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai Tower, SWFC forms the iconic "three-legged" Lujiazui skyline—a symbol of China's 30 years of reform and opening up.

Shanghai Tower, located at 501 Yincheng Middle Road, Pudong New Area, stands 632 meters tall with 127 above-ground floors and 5 basement levels. Fully completed and opened in 2015, it is the tallest building in China and the second tallest in the world, after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Designed by the American firm Gensler, the tower draws inspiration from DNA's double-helix structure, with its form resembling a slowly twisting "dragon-like" curved surface. Its facade consists of nearly 20,000 curved glass panels that change color with the light. The complex integrates offices, hotels, commerce, and sightseeing, housing the J Hotel (floors 84-110, one of the world's highest hotels), the 118F "Top of Shanghai" Observation Hall, the 126F "Damper Performance" installation, and the "Magic City Light" art exhibition. The "Top of Shanghai" observation hall on the 118th floor stands at 546 meters, making it the world's highest indoor observation platform, offering 360-degree views. The 126F "Shanghai Eye"—a 1,000-ton tuned mass damper—is one of the world's heaviest, blending technology and art seamlessly.

The Wu Changshuo Memorial Hall, located at 15 Lujiazui East Road, Pudong New Area, is a dedicated memorial to Wu Changshuo (1844-1927), the master of Shanghai-style painting and calligraphy in late Qing and early Republican China, who excelled in poetry, painting, calligraphy, and seal carving. The memorial is housed in the "Yingchuan Xiaozhu" (Yingchuan Small Mansion)—a late Qing and early Republic era red-and-blue brick carved residence built in 1920, originally the home of Shanghai merchant Chen Guichun. Officially relocated to this site in May 2010, the building covers approximately 1,500 square meters and is recognized as a Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relic Protection Unit, renowned for its exquisite brick and wood carvings and nicknamed "Pudong Carved Building." The memorial features three main exhibition halls: "Wu Changshuo's Life and Career," "Artistic Achievements," and "Poetry, Painting, Calligraphy, and Seal Works," displaying over 200 precious artifacts including works by Wu Changshuo and his disciples Qi Baishi, Pan Tianshou, Sha Menghai, Wang Geyi, and others. The site also includes the "Fou Pavilion" café and a cultural creative shop, making it a rare refined cultural oasis in the Lujiazui financial district.

Century Avenue, located in Pudong New Area, is 5.5 kilometers long and 100 meters wide. Stretching east from Century Park to the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Lujiazui and connecting directly with the Yan'an East Road Tunnel, it opened on April 18, 2000, and is one of the most important east-west arterial roads in Shanghai's Pudong New Area. Its most distinctive feature is being "China's first urban landscape avenue where greenery and sidewalks are wider than the vehicle lanes"—the north sidewalk alone is 44.5 meters wide, the south sidewalk 24.5 meters, with a total green landscape sidewalk area of 69 meters, more than three times that of an ordinary urban road. The avenue is lined with four rows of street trees, including evergreen camphor trees on the outer side and deciduous ginkgo and plane trees on the inner side, creating changing colors throughout the year and earning it the nickname "The Champs-Élysées of the East." Flanked by skyscrapers (Jin Mao Tower, SWFC, Shanghai Tower, Oriental Pearl) and low-rise financial street shops, the avenue is Shanghai's most international city image display. Along the way, Century Park is a weekend leisure destination, while Century Square features a large musical fountain.

The Pudong Riverside Promenade, located on the east bank of the Huangpu River in Pudong New Area, stretches approximately 2.5 kilometers from Dongchang Wharf in the west to Taitongzhan Wharf in the east, completed and opened in 1997. Comprising a water-friendly platform, sloped green landscape, semi-underground spaces, and landscape roads, it is hailed as the "Little Bund of Shanghai." Facing the historic Bund across the river, visitors can enjoy a panoramic view of the Puxi Bund's "Expo of World Architecture" and Lujiazui's modern skyscrapers (Oriental Pearl, Jin Mao, SWFC, Shanghai Tower), creating a magnificent dialogue between history and modernity. Lined with lush trees and blooming flowers, the promenade features over 20 themed sculptures, water-friendly viewing platforms, and cultural landmarks such as Chen Yi Square, the 1862 Shipyard Fashion Art Center, and the Shanghai Powerlong Art Museum. At night, the illuminated riverside becomes one of Shanghai's most iconic destinations for evening strolls, jogging, cycling, and photography. The "1862 Shipyard," a former century-old shipyard converted into a fashion art center, regularly hosts fashion, art, and commercial events, becoming Lujiazui's most artistic industrial-style new landmark.