Shanghai is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world with a population of more than 24 million . It is a global financial centre and transport hub, with the world's busiest container port. Located in the Yangtze River Delta, it sits on the south edge of the estuary of the Yangtze in the middle portion of the East China coast. The municipality borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north, south and west, and is bounded to the east by the East China Sea.

As a major administrative, shipping and trading city, Shanghai grew in importance in the 19th century due to trade and recognition of its favourable port location and economic potential. The city was one of five treaty ports forced open to foreign trade following the British victory over China in the First Opium War. The subsequent 1842 Treaty of Nanking and 1844 Treaty of Whampoa allowed the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement and the French Concession. The city then flourished as a centre of commerce between China and other parts of the world (predominantly Western countries), and became the primary financial hub of the Asia-Pacific region in the 1930s. However, with the Communist Party takeover of the mainland in 1949, trade was limited to other socialist countries, and the city's global influence declined. In the 1990s, the economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping resulted in an intense re-development of the city, aiding the return of finance and foreign investment to the city.

Answer this series of questions:

1. What is next to Shanghai on the east?
2. And one of the provinces on the the other sides?
3. And another?
4. What is its population?
5. What river is close to it?
6. After what event was it open to foreign trade?
7. Were there some treaties after that?
8. What was one of them?
9. And another?
10. When did the Communist Party come in?
11. What happened to international trade then?
12. Did it ever have a resurgence?
13. When?
14. Who was in charge then?
15. In the first place, what was one of the reasons for its growht?
16. How many ports had to open after the Opium War?
17. What did Deng Xiaoping do that let to better trade?
18. Can you name one thing that those two treaties we mentioned allowed?
19. Name another?
20. When did Shanghai become the most important financial center in its area?

Numbered answers:
1. East China Sea.
2. Jiangsu
3. Zhejiang
4. more than 24 million
5. Yangtze
6. The British defeated China in the First Opium War
7. yes
8. the 1842 Treaty of Nanking
9. 1844 Treaty of Whampoa
10. 1949
11. it was limited
12. yes
13. in the 1990s
14. Deng Xiaoping
15. it had a favorable port location and economic potential
16. Five
17. economic reforms
18. the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement
19. the French Concession
20. the 1930s