Pudong Skyline including the Jinmao Tower and the 492-meter-high Shanghai World Financial Center. Visitors can pay half-price to tour the tourist viewing floors at these two buildings, Shanghai's two tallest. [China.org.cn].

In and effort to promote tourism during in the post-New Year slump as well as the economic downturn, the Shanghai Tourism Industry Association has created a tourism promotion. Half-Price Tuesdays allow visitors to go to any of the below listed 18 places and pay only half-price entry. The promotion is slated to last from this week until April 28, 2009.

• Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower
• Shanghai Zoo
• 88-story Sightseeing Hall, Shanghai Jinmao Tower
• Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
• Shanghai Science & Technology Museum
• 94-story Sightseeing Hall, Shanghai World Financial Center
• Century Park
• Shanghai Sheshan National Holiday Resort
• Shanghai Circuit
• Changfeng Ocean Park
• The Former Residence of Soong Ching Ling
• Confucius Temple
• Shanghai Square Tower Park
• Shanghai Film & TV Park
• Yinqixing Indoor Skiing Site
• Moon Lake Sculpture Park
• The Former Residence of Sun Yat-sen
• Shanghai Madame Tussauds Museum

 

 

(China.org.cn March 3, 2009)