崇明导游词 英文版(2)

dream come ture. In past years, local people went to downtown by ship, because the waterway is the only way. In Chongming we have 7 passenger terminals, 16 ship routes. In bad weather, it’s inconvenient. The tunnel bridge was opened to traffic last year. Now it only takes one hour from Chongming to Pudong District. The tunnel bridge is not only present the new achievement in the construction of Shanghai, but also demonstrates the Shanghai Expo Theme: “Better city, better life!”

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<Chenhai Road>

This road sweeps round the island. It is 24.3 km and it’s called the “century avenue”.

<Introduction of Chongming>

It takes about an hour to our first destination, so I am very glad to give you a brief introduction about Chongming.

Chongming is located on the estuary of Yangtze River. It’s the third biggest island in China. The first biggest one is Taiwan Island, the second biggest one is Hainan Island. It is surrounded by Yangtze River on three sides and the Eastern Sea on one side. It bears the reputation of “Gateway of Yangtze River, Fairyland of eastern Sea”. As a big alluvial 'lu:vi l] island, Chongming gets bigger and bigger, hence a living island.

Chongming Country includes three islands: Changxing Island (88 square

kilometers), Hengsha Island (56 square kilometers) and Chongming Island (1267 square kilometers). strategical[str 'ti: ik l, str 'ti:d ik l] reserved[ri'z :vd] It covers a total area of 1411 square kilometers. and the population is 0.7 million. It has 1300 years long history. In 618 AD, there were two islands appeared here: