Shanghai Exhibition Centre

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  • Address
    1000 Central Yan'an Rd, Jìng'ān
  • Phone
    6279 0279

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Lonely Planet review

The hulking great monolith of the Shanghai Exhibition Centre can be seen from West Nanjing Rd. It was built as the Palace of Sino-Soviet Friendship, a friendship that soon turned to ideological rivalry and even the brink of war in the 1960s. Architectural buffs will appreciate its monumentality and unsubtle, bold Bolshevik strokes - there was a time when Pǔdōng was set to look like this.

The site of the Exhibition Centre was originally the gardens of the Jewish millionaire Silas Hardoon.