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No.716 Dongyuhang Road, Shanghai, Shanghai Region, 200082, China
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Shanghai - China
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Is one RMB of the same value as one YUAN? What is mostly used in Shanghai, RMB or YUAN?
It's the same.
Yeap, it's just two different names for the same currency. RMB is supposed to be the denomination name and Yuan the unit name. Therefore, something is worth 3 yuan, not 3 RMB.
rmb is the name of chinese money,in rmb, we have one fen,two fen,five fen,one jiao(or mao),two jiao(or mao),five jiao(or mao),one yuan,two yuan,five yuan,ten yuan,twenty yuan,fifty yuan and one hundred yuan.
with one yuan, you can buy two tea boiled eggs by the side of the street.
with one yuan,you can take the public buses within the distances of no more than ten bus stops(i means in beijing).
with two yuan, you can go from west train station to the summer palace(ten km at least)by bus t6.
with three yuan, you can take the subways of beijing.
but, if you want to take the taxi, you must have ten yuan at least in beijing.
and the ticket to summer palace is 35 yuan.
can you make it clear now?
You might also hear prices quoted as 10 kuai. This is the same as 10 yuan, just another term. I heared this used fairly frequently in Shanghai.
annette98 is right！if we show it to our chinese, we say kuai, or we say yuan.
just the same！
I did hear frequently "kuai" in Taiwan (it is NT$ than) or in the States (than it means USD).
I was told, "kuai" means simply "monetary unit", so people in Mainland China mean RMB, in Taiwan NTD, and Chinese expats living in USA mean USD.
Thus our business partner who runs a computer business near Taibei always say "quai" about US$ while speaking with his colleagues, so do the local kids in Cupertino who came from M'land to US.
RMB means the people's currency and is the typical international monetary market term. All notes/coins are printed as "Wu Yuan" or "5 Yuan" for example and "Yi Jiao" or "1 Jiao" but you never say "Yuan" in Chinese speaking. Modern China is slowly accepting western writing numbers although some coins are still being minted without any western number, only the old-style traditional Chinese character for a number. When you get one of these coins, you may need to ask a Chinese what the number character actually means. The Chinese on the street ALWAYS say kwai (pronounced like "kw-eye") for the base unit when speaking Chinese. For example, the price of something will be spoken as "Wu kwai san" which means 5 Yuan and 3 jiao. In northern China and in all but a few parts of southern China, a tenth of a Yuan is spoken as "Mao" even though it is always written as "jiao". It is quite confusing but not as much as the dozen or more terms for money units in the U.K.
This building contains an incredibly accurate miniature model of the entire city, complete with every little window detail, roofing and siding! Made to scale! There is information about the water and electrical lines, infrastructure and foresight into upcoming architectural plans for the future. A dream for any architect or engineer interested in urban planning and design.
Address: 100 Renmin Da Dao
Directions: Take taxi to People's Square.
It is fast and convenient to travel around by metro. Always bring some coins with you and use the ticket vending machine to buy metro tickets, which saves you a lot of time standing in a line to get ticket from the counter.
As far as I'm concerned, Zhou Zhuang is a must see if you have some time in Shanghai. It is a town of canals and old houses and you can take a ride on a Gondola. It is only a 90 minutes bus ride so you could visit for one day if that's all the time you have. I stayed for a night, which I recommend as the hoardes of tourists depart by 4:00pm and you have the place to yourself. The beauty of the village can not be overestimated, you simply must visit. A photographers heaven.
Please see my Off the Beaten track tips for more information on this wonderful place.
I love observing local people and how they go about their daily life when I am in a foreign city. But, what I especially love is the children, and the children of Shanghai (I think) were especially gorgeous and adorable. Do you agree with me?
On leaving Shanghai airport and jumping in the first available taxi, the see-through plastic barrier encasing the driver, to protect him from actual bodily harm from irate customers, told me I was no longer in the safe haven of Japan. I had arrived at night and the view from the Nanpu bridge looking out on both sides of the river was nothing short of stunning. Shanghai is a city literally on the rise.
I booked into my hotel and soon headed out to explore. I walked along the bank of the river in the area known as The Bund. The stately, colonial buildings of the west bank look on serenly as their younger cousins on the east bank reach for the stars. It was a warm night and the floodlit facades of the old institutions made for a romantic atmosphere. It seemed ashame to be travelling on my own in this city.
I found a restaurant and ordered pork in fish sauce and stir-fried rice, using the power of my finger to point at the thoughtfully provided picture menu . I washed it down with what the waitress insisted was beer, even though the menu described it as rich, glutinous wine. It was 10% by volume but it tasted like beer, which was the main thing.
I returned to the hotel, pleased to have successfully negotiated my first night in China.
Somewhere in Shanghai there is a guy called "Ladies Bar". The reason I know this is because I must look quite a bit like this guy. Strange men on the street keep coming up to me and greeting me by saying 'Hello, Ladies Bar?'. There is obviously don't look completely like this guy because they say this with a rising intonation that denotes a question. Whoever this guy "Ladies Bar" is there are a LOT of people who want to speak to him.
After five days in China I'm of the opinion that the place would be a lot better off if there weren't so many chinese people everywhere. They're not exactly the type of people who go in for quite contemplation of things either. It strikes me that most Chinese people seem to think there are too many people, too. Drivers for example make every effort to try and cull some of the excees population evreytime they come to a junction. Maybe this comes as a directive from The Party. The one child policy hasn't worked at keeping the population down so maybe increasing the roadkill numbers will help.
The Party are very good at ordering people not to do things, too. As part of the drive to put on a more socially acceptable face to the outside world in time for the olympics you can see signs saying 'No spitting', usually witha guy hocking a loogie right next to it. There are also signs at the subways stations telling people its prohibited to bring explosives into the station. Islamist extremists don't stand a chance with those kinds of counter-terrorism measures. Another decree, at the station platform, reminds anybody contemplating suicide that its illegal
to jump onto the train tracks in front of the train.
Right, I'm off to bed. If you see Ladies Bar, let him know there are a few people who want to speak to him on the Nanjing Road.
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