Lujiazui

Lujiazui
Lujiazui
	Skyscrapers in Lujiazui, as seen from Zhapalu Bridge
Traditional Chinese	陸家嘴
Simplified Chinese	陆家嘴
Wugniu	loq8 ka1 tsy3
Literal meaning	"Cape of the Lu Family"
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Lùjiāzuǐ
Wu
Wugniu	loq8 ka1 tsy3
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Luhk gā jéui
Jyutping	luk6 gaa1 zeoi2
IPA	[lʊ̀k ka̋ tsɵ̌y]

A group of skyscrapers and towers, seen from across a river. At the left is one consisting of a sphere on concrete supports topped by a long spike; in the center are smaller buildings, one a bright gold color, gradually rising to the tallest one at right, still under construction — Lujiazui skyline, as seen from the Bund, across the Huangpu River, the tallest building being Shanghai Tower

Lujiazui is the light area on the right of this 1933 map, facing the Bund across the river

Lujiazui (simplified Chinese: 陆家嘴; traditional Chinese: 陸家嘴; pinyin: Lùjiāzuǐ; Wugniu: loq-ka-tsy, Wu Chinese pronunciation: [loʔ˩ ka̱˨ t͡sz̩˧]) is a locality in Shanghai, a peninsula formed by a bend in the Huangpu River. Since the early 1990s, Lujiazui has been developed specifically as a new financial district of Shanghai. The decision to earmark Lujiazui for this purpose reflects its location: it is located on the east side of the Huangpu River in Pudong, and sits directly across the river from the old financial and business district of the Bund.

Lujiazui is a national-level development zone designated by the government. In 2005, the State Council reaffirmed the positioning of the 31.78 km² (12.27 sq mi) Lujiazui area as the only finance and trade zone among the 185 state-level development zones in mainland China.