The trip included visits to the forbidden city and great wall of China in Beijing, the terra cotta warrior museum in Xi An and the Bund and French Concession in Shanghai.
The hotel is in the tower-filled Pudong area, across the Huangpu River from the famous Bund, in the Lujiazu business district.
The Hongkou segment of the Bund was known in the past for its international tenants, like the Broadway Mansions Hotel and Russian Consulate.
The next turn of the wheel can be seen in Mr. Wilson's Custom House, also on the Bund, begun after the HSBC building and completed in 1927.
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Accoya is used around the world, from a velodrome in Tbilisi, to decking on the Shanghai Bund and Disney theme parks.
"It's not cheap, but the location is good, " she says of the apartment in a high-rise building in a residential district north of the Shanghai Bund.
Across the Suzhou Creek in the Hongkou District, the riverfront turns into the North Bund, which has been redeveloped as a transport hub centred on a passenger cruise terminal.
In contrast to Park 97, where concept reigns in absolute supremacy, in contrast to the lovely Shanghai Bund and to the zealous enthusiasm of Beijing, Shanghai eyes reflect some special images.
They've even let a new member into the club: The Peninsula Shanghai hotel, which bookends the northern curve of the Bund, was the first new building here in six decades.
Even in Shanghai, where smoking incurs none of the opprobrium that it does in New York, tobacco advertising has been banned along the waterfront Bund, the city's equivalent of Times Square.
When the projects are finished in 2015, visitors will be able to walk roughly 10km from the Bund over to the Expo site.
June bund futures have made extended gains in the past hour and stand higher by a full point at 124.40 shaving seven basis points from its yield to 3.09%.
Last year he rented a factory in the city's up-and-coming North Bund area, turned it into a hotel and decided this year to adopt the Super 8 brand for marketability.
The most popular European government bond, the German bund, was being ditched by traders in droves on Friday.
After the failure of a German bund auction, interest rates began to climb in Germany, and so did Japanese rates that have been near zero for almost a decade!
European bond prices made gains on Friday morning, with the three-month German bund yielding 2.03%, from 1.68% late Thursday in New York.
Those defences - a flood bund, or mound - had been put in place as part of original outline planning permission granted to the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) by Denbighshire council.
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