Lujiazui

This was largely driven by Chinese state owned enterprises investing and developing the property within the area, with the inaugural landmark, the Oriental Pearl Tower, being completed in 1994.

[1] The modern configuration of the Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek beyond the old county town of Shanghai is the result of engineering works completed during the early Ming dynasty.

Lu's family became one of the most prominent in Ming dynasty Shanghai, and lived in the Yangjing canal area, east of the Huangpu River and close to today's Lujiazui.

The middle part of the peninsula became a town called Lannidu (烂泥渡, literally "Mud Ferry"), named after one of the wharves on the river bank.

British, American, French, German and Japanese interests built a series of factories, warehouses and storage yards, and wharves to service them.

A busy commercial street developed in Lannidu to service the commodities trade as well as the daily needs of the many workers employed by the industrial facilities.

The Oriental Pearl Radio & Television Tower has dominated the skyline of Lujiazui since it was completed in 1995, although there are now two skyscrapers taller than it.

At the north end, the Xichang Inn wharf provides river-crossing services across the Huangpu River to northern central Shanghai.

Skyscrapers in Lujiazui, as seen from Zhapalu Bridge
A group of skyscrapers and towers, seen from across a river. At the left is one consisting of a sphere on concrete supports topped by a long spike; in the center are smaller buildings, one a bright gold color, gradually rising to the tallest one at right, still under construction
Lujiazui skyline, as seen from the Bund , across the Huangpu River , the tallest building being Shanghai Tower
Lujiazui at night from the Suzhou Creek
This is a whole view of Lujiazui taken in the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in 2002.
Lujiazui is the light area on the right of this 1933 map, facing the Bund across the river