Question

求助~用英文介绍上海

要几句,介绍上海的变化,要用英文,下面要注释好中文,谢。
是要上海的变化~

Answer 1

Shanghai

Municipality with provincial status (pop., 1999 est.: city, 8,937,175; 2000 est.: municipality, 16,740,000), east-central China.

The municipality, on the East China Sea, is bordered by Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and has an area of 2,400 sq mi (6,200 sq km). The city is located on the Huangpu River, which gives oceangoing vessels access to it. Shanghai was settled c. AD 1000, and later under the Ming dynasty it was an area of intense cotton production. This changed when it became the first Chinese port opened to trade with the West after China's defeat by Britain in the Opium Wars (1842); it came to dominate the nation's commerce. The site of the Chinese Communist Party's founding in 1921, it saw severe fighting in the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45 and was occupied by Japan during World War II. Since the communist victory in 1949, it has become China's chief industrial and commercial centre and one of its leading centres of higher education and scientific research.

上海

中国华中东部直辖市。滨临东海，与江苏省和浙江省交界。地处黄浦江畔，远洋轮船能靠近城市。约自1000年起即有人定居，后来在明朝期间，此地成为密集的棉花产地。1842年当中国在鸦片战争中被英国击败后，上海成为中国首批向西方开放通商的港口后，原为棉产地的形势开始转变，开始主导国家的商业。1921年中国共产党在此地成立；中日战争期间(1937～1945)，在上海爆发剧烈的战斗；第二次世界大战，日本占领此地。自共产党于1949年获胜后，成为中国首要的工业与商业中心，以及高等教育和科学研究的领先之地。