The Bund

The Bund (English: The Bund； Shanghai dialect pinyin: nga thae）， Located on the banks of the Huangpu River in Huangpu District, Shanghai, known as Outer Huangpu Beach, it is a Chinese historical and cultural district. Since 1844 (the 24th year of the Qing Dynasty's Daoguang reign), the Bund area has been designated as a British concession, becoming a true reflection of Shanghai's ten mile foreign market and the starting point of the old Shanghai concession area and the entire modern city of Shanghai@The total length of 1#

Bund is 1.5 kilometers, starting from Yan'an East Road in the south to Garden Bridge of Shanghai on the Suzhou Creek in the north, to the east is the Huangpu River, and to the west is the concentration of financial and foreign trade institutions in old Shanghai. After Shanghai was established as a commercial port, foreign banks, commercial banks, associations, and newspapers began to gather here, and the Bund became the financial center of the country and even the Far East. In August 1943, the Bund was returned to the Shanghai International Settlement by the Wang puppet Nationalist government, ending the century long concession period#