How did Shanghai change from a small fishing village to a super city?

It is because of the relationship between geographical location and population that a small fishing village has become a super-large city.

Shanghai's rise from a strange town to a modern international metropolis is by no means accidental or a gift of power, but a historical necessity with profound natural conditions, humanities and factors. Driven by commercial interests, human society has entered the era of globalization, the world powers have reached the door, and the closed and closed old feudal China can no longer be immune to it. The Opium War forcibly opened the door, making Shanghai one of the five major trading ports, which is an extremely favorable geographical position. Britain, France and the United States established a franchise in Shanghai, and the western world occupied its own base areas in China and Shanghai.

The battle between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Small Construction Association forced the rich from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai to flee from the Shanghai Concession, and promoted the rapid development of the British, American and French Concessions in Shanghai into a new immigrant city inhabited by Huayang. With the formation of cities, Chinese and foreign businesses and trade industries have also flourished, and their economic strength has grown rapidly. Geographical factors: Shanghai is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, on the coast of the East China Sea, north and south of China. Shipping is the main mode of transportation for Chinese and foreign trade, which makes Shanghai the best hub for external export and internal radiation distribution. Foreigners list Shanghai as one of the five major trading ports because they like Shanghai. Have this natural geographical advantage.

Personnel and factors, which were unique to China and Shanghai at that time. The establishment of Anglo-American French Concession and the influx of immigrants led to the social and political situation in modern Shanghai, with western concessions and immigrant armies everywhere. No one can control the situation, only the situation can be formed. Constrained and balanced social relations. With the passage of time, we can form more equal, freer and looser social relations, thus forming tolerant cultural habits, treating different cultures equally and living in harmony with each other. It is this cultural environment that prompted foreigners to abandon Guangzhou and go to Shanghai to do business, which made Shanghai quickly replace Guangzhou and become the first port gateway of China's foreign trade.