Binjiang Avenue
Riverside promenade along the Huangpu, tracing a former shipyard now backed by Pudong's skyline.
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This guide to Binjiang Avenue in Shanghai starts with a rusted iron anchor standing alone on the pavement, no ship in sight. It traces the promenade back to 1862, when a British merchant named Nicholson opened one of China's first modern shipyards on this stretch of the Huangpu, and follows it through a 1949 state takeover and the 1978 launch of the Shaoxing, a ten-thousand-ton freighter and China's first ship built for export. Look downriver for the long brick shed with a glass gap cut through its middle.
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