When did Shanghai open?

1843 Shanghai port opening function;

Shanghai is a unique and outstanding city. Since the opening of 1843, immigrants from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Shandong, Guangdong, Fujian and overseas immigrants from Britain, the United States, France and Russia have contributed to the development and prosperity of this new city. His uniqueness is based on its superior geographical location and long history.

It is located at the middle end of the north-south coastline of China, at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the largest river. It is close to Suzhou, Hangzhou and Nanjing, the prosperous areas of China's traditional culture and economy, far from the vast areas of Hubei, Sichuan, Lu Yu, Hebei and Shanxi, and has a moderate distance from South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore and other countries. This uniqueness is not found in other cities in China.

This has also created conditions for Shanghai to become the largest city in the Far East in a relatively short period of time, and its outstanding performance is in many aspects such as high cultural tolerance, economic prosperity and pluralism, and freedom of thought.

Shanghai has developed into an international metropolis of 634 1 square kilometer, while the old city is only 2 square kilometers. Shanghai Institute of Surveying and Mapping keeps the earliest map of Shanghai, the whole map of urban and rural concessions in Shanghai County in the first year of Guangxu (1875), with the scale of 1: 5000, mainly depicting the Huangpu River, with Yu Garden as the main urban area.

The increase of foreign trade after the opening of the port became the basis of Shanghai's modern leap. With the opening of the port, the original port throughput of 3 million tons per year quickly exceeded 6.5438+million tons; The annual trade volume hovered between 30 million taels and 50 million taels, and soon exceeded 654.38 billion taels. At the same time, various industries that used to be almost blank paper have also risen rapidly.