Recorded highlights from the visit, seen live earlier today, to the historic city of Shanghai. Sue Lawley, with BBC Peking Correspondent Mark Brayne , describes The Queen's walk through the famous bazaar area of the old town and her meetings with street sellers and tradesmen. She then moves across a zig-zag bridge over an ornamental lake to take tea at the Wu Xing Ting Tea House.
Nearby is another Shanghai attraction, the so-called
'Mandarin's Garden', dating back four centuries. A garden, say the Chinese, is a Place to 'nourish the heart'. For the Queen it may also Provide some respite in her week-long tour which continues with a flight to Xian and a sight of the famous Terracotta Warriors, then on to Kunming towards the Burmese border, and finishes in Canton on Saturday evening.