Why is Huaibei called "little shanghai"?

There are many similarities with Shanghai.

The origin of little shanghai in Huaibei should start from a period of origin between Huaibei and Shanghai. When Huaibei was first built, there were many people from all over the country who came to support the construction. Most of them were Shanghainese, Jiangsu people and Shandong people. Shanghainese was the foreigner who came the most and stayed the longest. At that time, there were several Shanghainese in almost every class of primary schools in the city. Now some of them have gone back, and some are still in Huaibei.

The joke "Shanghainese just pay attention to environmental sanitation" was teased at first, but Shanghainese didn't care, and still attached great importance to the sanitation in Huaibei City. At that time, although the city was small, it was very clean and tidy!

In 1970s, Song, director of Anhui Revolutionary Committee, came to northern Anhui to investigate educated youth and military management, and came to Huaibei City at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain. When he saw the era of material poverty, the streets and alleys of Huaibei were full of dazzling seafood, clean and tidy roads, and Shanghai dialect flying everywhere, he was greatly surprised: I didn't expect there to be such a city in northern Anhui, and Huaibei City could be called the "little shanghai" of Anhui!