From downtown Shanghai's New Asia Hotel (China), families, couples, and business guests can stroll to The Bund, the famous waterfront tree lined promenade of cultural and entertainment venues with 52 Gothic, Baroque, Romanesque, Classicism and Renaissance buildings. Visitors can walk the meditative Yu Garden and through a traditional teahouse and more than 30 pavilions linked by corridors, bridges and ponds.

They can enjoy the international restaurants, temples, galleries, museums and Nßnjing L∙, the number one shopping street in China all near the New Asia Hotel.

Opened in 1934, this downtown Shanghai hotel offers supervised childcare and activities, a nightclub, fitness equipment, a steam room, a sauna, massages, a business center, conference rooms, and transportation to Shanghai's airport 45 minutes away.

Guests can dine at the White Clouds restaurant during conferences, banquets and ceremonies.

The Sea Rosy Clouds restaurant serves local and Cantonese cuisines with the Western Restaurant and Bar for Western inspired dishes.

This eight story hotel features 313 lightly colored, European style guestrooms and 12 suites with air conditioning, modernistic or antique reproduction furniture, cable/satellite TVs, premium bedding, high speed Internet access, minibars, microwave ovens, refrigerators, coffeemakers, and windows that open.

Air travelers, especially at night, will know they're in this modern Chinese capital of business, commerce and finance when they spot from the sky the dramatically lighted Oriental Pearl TV tower, the 1,245 foot high tower soaring over the Huangpu River and monopolizing the metropolitan skyline.

New rail connection between Pudong International Airport (PVG) and Shanghai city centre via Metro Line No. 2.

The new Maglev Demonstration Line, one of the fastest trains in the world, now connects Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Longyang Station on Line No. 2 of the Shanghai Metro. Once at Longyang Road, Metro Line No. 2 can be taken to major destinations in both Pudong New Area and throughout Puxi, or the area west of the Huangpu River that includes Shanghai city centre.

Construction is currently underway for Merto Line No.

2 to reach Hongqiao Airport (SHA), which is used primarily for domestic flights. This new convenience, set to open in 2006, will mean that a traveler that lands from an international flight at PVG will be able to connect to a domestic flight at Hongqiao using an all rail journey with a single transfer at Longyang Road Station.