Shanghai is one of the fastest growingcities of China, which every year becomes more beautiful and modern. Russian tourists choose this densely populated point because of the amazing historical monuments and a huge number of boutiques of world famous brands.
Many wonder why tourists from all Chinesecities choose Shanghai. But in fact, there is nothing surprising in this, because this city is called the economic miracle of China. A few years ago, Shanghai was a small fishing village, and now it is a metropolis with skyscrapers and modern plants. Here you can see in one territory the most beautiful architectural monuments of the Celestial Empire and several large shopping centers that perfectly fit into the general ensemble of historical monuments of Shanghai.
Moscow tourists can fly to Chinaseveral airlines, the fastest flight is provided by Aeroflot. She makes direct flights Moscow - Shanghai. The airport of the final destination you will see after nine hours. Transit flight will take from fifteen to thirty hours, transplantations in this case are carried out in various cities of China.
In modern Shanghai are the second inthe importance of the country's air gate. Pudong International Airport is designed to receive more than thirty million passengers a year, and, according to the Chinese themselves, this is not the limit.
Pudong is a fairly new airport, itsconstruction began at the end of the last century. At the moment, it occupies the third largest passenger airport in China. As the number of tourists wishing to see Shanghai annually increases, Pudong Airport may soon fail to cope with the flow of travelers. Therefore, most domestic flights are now being transferred to the second Shanghai airport - Hongqiao: its capacity is still able to serve all local air carriers.
Pudong is located almost in the city, from the center it is separated only thirty kilometers. This fact greatly facilitates the tourists the way to the hotels and guest houses of Shanghai after the arrival.
The total area of the hub is amazing - it'salmost eight hundred thousand square meters occupied by runways, buildings, warehouses and various auxiliary services. A distinctive and rather pleasant feature of Pudong International Airport is its mode of operation. All that is in the buildings of the terminal, operates around the clock. It is very convenient for tourists, especially those who enter Shanghai in transit.
Every day more than four hundred take-offs and landings take place on the territory of the airport, which is sixty percent of the total air traffic in Shanghai.
Each Chinese airport is lined up in an exactaccording to the scheme. If you first flew to Shanghai, the airport may seem confusing and inconvenient to you. But in fact, Pudong has only two three-story terminals, located at some distance from each other. The first is mainly for flights of foreign air carriers, the second is given to large Chinese air operators.
I would like to note that Pudong is the mosthigh-tech airport in Shanghai: the departure and arrival flight schedule is updated in real time simultaneously in the terminal building and on the airport's website. Between the terminals you can move with a special free transport or through a pedestrian tunnel. Walking takes no more than twenty minutes.
In the terminal building there is a large number ofcafes and restaurants, their total area is about sixty thousand square meters. In addition to catering facilities, the airport has waiting rooms, check-in counters, customs control and many other infrastructure facilities.
Each of the two terminals has rental officescars and exits to taxi stands. The city can be reached with the help of public transport, especially the movement on the maglev. With the help of this electric train on a magnetic cushion, tourists get to the center of Shanghai in just a few minutes.
Many experienced travelers believe that the faceany city is its air terminal. The same can be said with confidence about modern Shanghai. Pudong Airport is not just the main air gate of the city, but its beautiful reflection.
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