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Shanghai - China
The city of Shanghai is the largest town and the most important industrial town of the People's Republic of China in the real town without suburb belts live 9,263,000 people with principal domicile, another about three million is added with a temporary residence permit in the town province 13.355.000. Shanghai is a government immediate town, this means it is put under the authority of the central government directly and has the status of a province.
Story of Shanghai
Before Christ, the primary tracks of the settlement in the region reach back to about 4000. Shanghai was mentioned for the first time as a village in 960. With the economic upswing of the Jangtse delta Shanghai also grew. Shanghai got a tax office of its own 1074. It became fanfoldedly 1264 with three other villages. The town had an important trading port at that time by which the stately cotton harvest of the region was shipped to Beijing, to the hinterland and to Japan. Up to the Qing dynasty had himself great, by the trade organized and external for the Dutch guilds ähnelde merchant guilds formed which shared economic and partly also political control over the town. The choice of the brits only therefore actually fell on Shanghai as a contract port because the town had become the "most important market place of Eastern Asia" for the 1840s years as the representative of the Ostindien company, Hugh Lingsey, it formulated.
After the opium wars the brits 1842 drew to the town, soon on this, under the contract of Nanking 1847 one the Frenchmen followed and these two powers set up the first foreign concessions in Shanghai along the brits the federation and had founded these in the field north of old Shanghai, the Chinese town, the Frenchmen in the southwest in the area of a cathedral, 200 years before a French missionary.
The U.S. Americans came 1863, 1895 the Japanese and her own affiliated fields of the British concession which had extended to the so-called "International Settlement". In a number of prvilegierten enclaves which were leased until uncertain time dealers came under the jurisdiction of their own country and there were police of his own.
By the favorable situation near the main trade route of the large silk and regions producing tea Shanghai developed to 1900, far-reaching of, into an important port and industrial center the "green speed" this was checked for a syndicate which is notorious and founded by unemployed sailors in the 18th century. Until the beginning of the 1920s years it also had caused the wide-branched underworld under its rule. At merchants and criminals which disregarded the strict code of conduct terrible examples were set one severed all here prominent tendons for them with a knife, before one let them die in the live hustle and bustle at the roadside.
During the Taiping rebellion many fled from the massacres to the foreign settlements and the cheap workers of Shanghai increased but farmers were also attracted by the visible wealth of the town. The first municipal proletariat of China took shape and the wretched conditions of life created the natural breeding ground in the interplay with unemployment being rife always more strongly and the exploitation of Chinese workers by the foreign investors for revolutionary strengths. The population grew considerably also the economic meaning of Shanghai in the midst of the devastated surroundings. At the Boxer Rebellion and the fall of the last Kaiser many people escaped in the international concessions also later. Shanghai became a real metropolis with the end of the 19th century within the 1920s years.
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