About Shanghai

Linda Gu

Table of Contents

General Information

Geography

Transportation

Economy

Culture & Arts

Media

Tourism

General Information

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上海Shanghai

021

Yangzi River Delta

6,340 square kilometers

24.25 millions

Shanghainese

Hong Qiao Airport; Pudong Airport

North station; South station, Hong Qiao station

2.49 trillion (until 2015)

Source from “Baidu Baike”

Website：http://baike.baidu.com/view/1735.htm

Shanghai

Yangzi River Delta

Administrative division

- Uptown

- Downtown

Geography

Shanghai is divided into 17

districts and 1 country

City Map

City Construction-Architectural

Shanghai has a rich collection of buildings

and structures of various architectural

styles.

It ‘s mixed by western and eastern, modern

and contemporary.

• Landmark of Shanghai - The Bund,

• Western style - French Concession

• Chinese Traditional style - Yuyuan Garden

• Shanghainese cultural element – Shi Ku Men

City Construction-Environment protection

Until 2009, total public greenbelt is around 18700 hectare and 15.7 square

meters per person. Percentage of forest cover is more than 18.63%.

Shanghai has about 200 parks.

• Parks aside the streets

Lu Xun Park in Hongkou District

Zhongshan Park in Changning

Century Park in Pudong district

Transportation

Shanghai has an extensive public transport system, largely

based on buses, trolleybuses, taxis, a rapidly expanding metro

system and airplanes.

Shanghai is the biggest traffic junction in China by having its

comprehensive transportation network.

More than 1000 bus lines and 18000 buses have been operated in shanghai

and there are 7.8 million passengers carrying capacity per day, which take up

65% of total passengers carrying capacity in the whole city.

Bus

Taxi

Taxi is a main transport tool also, especially after 11 pm when the night life

starts. The passengers carrying capacity for taxi is more than 2 million

average, which take up 25% of transportation in shanghai.

Expo Taxi

Including Expo Metro Line 13, Shanghai has 12 metro lines until 2010, the total

miles are mounted to 410 kilometers. The daily passages carrying capacity is

5.27milions every day.

Metro

Line 2

Line 3

Shanghai Metro Map

Shanghai Maglev Train is notable for being the first commercial high-speed

maglev line in the world — during a test run on November 12, 2003, a Maglev

vehicle achieved a Chinese record speed of 501 km/h (311 mph) .

The journey was designed to connect Shanghai Pudong International Airport

quickly to the outskirts of central Shanghai

Shanghai Maglev Train

Hong Qiao Airport is located in Changning District, 13km west of downtown. The

main airlines of Hongqiao Airport are domestic airlines. It’s connected by the

terminal of metro line 2.

Hong Qiao Airport

Pudong International Airport , which is

located at eastern edge of Pudong

district, 40 km from downtown.

Pudong International Airport

So far, 560 airplanes are taking off from here and 73 international cities and 62 domestic cites had been covered by its airlines.

Economy

Shanghai is the biggest port in China and it is a center of technique,

trade, finance, information and culture.

Industry structure has been optimizing with the secondary and tertiary

industries underpinning the economic development.

Shanghai is the biggest commercial center in China; it emerges its

enchanting bearing in the grand and smooth atmosphere.

Shanghai is often regarded as the centre of finance and trade in mainland

China. As the foreign investment is increasing rapidly, Shanghai also becomes

the financial center in the world.

Shanghai

Second biggest stock market center in the world

GDP rank No.1 in China

Bank investment occupy 85% of total in China

Biggest import & export harbor national wide

Rank third in the world stock exchange market

Second biggest futures trading center worldwide

Domestic & Foreign Economy

Culture & Art

Because of Shanghai's status as the cultural and economic centre of

East Asia for the first half of the twentieth century, it is popularly seen

as the birthplace of everything considered modern in China.

Shanghai is also influenced by western culture in past decades, and

shanghai has been regarded as the most dynamic city when come to

world culture and chinese traditional culture combination.

Shanghai has a lot famous

universites nationalwide and

worldwide.

Fudan University

Jiao Tong University

High Education

Tong Ji University

Songjiang University

Community

The local dialect in shanghai is Shanghainese, and the offical language is

mandarin. Because shanghai is a emigrant city, there are so many kinds of

languages in different community. English is sill the most common foreign

language in shanghai.

Shanghainese

Mandarin

EnglishFrench

Japanese

Korean

German

Chinese Dialect

Language

Shanghai boasts several local important museums

• The Shanghai Museum of art and history has one of the best collections of

Chinese historical artifacts in the world

• The Shanghai Art Museum, located near People's Square, is a major art

museum holding both permanent and temporary exhibitions

• Shanghai Natural History Museum is a large scale natural history museum

Museums

Besides literature, Shanghai was also the birthplace of Chinese cinema and

theater

• Shanghai Grand Theater , located in People square, main activites are

held in here.

• Shanghai Cinema has the most long history, which is located in Changning

District.

• Peace Cinema, a new morden cinema in shanghai, it’s avilable for IMAX

movies and very popular with it’s center location in People Square.

Shanghai Grand Theater

Shanghai Cinema

Peace Cinema

Cinemas & Theaters

Media

Information center of

China and Asia

.

Communication

Entertainment

SMG, the largest media conglomerates in China, is a multimedia television and

radio broadcasting, news and Internet company. Its networking is covering Radio

and TV channels.

• News Channel

• Entertainment Channel

• CBN (China Business Network)

• Channel Young

• Channel of Fine Arts

• ICS (International Channel Shanghai)

• Haha TV (Children's Channel)

• TV Drama Channel

• Documentary Channel

Shanghai Media Group (SMG)

• Moblie TV on metro and bus from DMG

DMG

• Shanghai Star

• Xin Min Evening News

• Shanghai Morning Post

• Laodong Daily

• Shanghai Youth Daily

• Shanghai Evening Post

• Shanghai Business Journal

• Shanghai Financial Journal

• Shanghai SecuritiesNews

• International Finance News

• Shanghai Times

• Shanghai Weekly

• Shanghai Wednesday

• Shanghai Legal Daily

• Xin Min Sports News

Newspaper

SHANGHAI has becoming a

city of fashion and take the

lead of the world fashion trend.

A lot famous brands and

designers choose shanghai as

the first new collection launch.

Blending and mixing style is

the main stream in Shanghai

fashion.

Dior

Chanel

Fashion

Shanghai has hosted a number of world events.

• 2007 Summer Special Olympic and a Live Earth concert.

• The Shanghai International Film Festival is annually held in the city.

• The city has also hosted the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix at Shanghai

since 2004.

Special Olympic Opening

The Formula One

International Film Festival

Global Events

The city is the host of the Expo 2010 World's Fair between May 1 and October

2010.

Tourism

Shanghai attracted millions of tourists from all over the world, it

becomes the most hot travel destination especially after the opening

of 2010 Shanghai Expo.

According to the tourism bureau stasiticts, the totoal foreign tourists

are 4.61 millions from January to July in 2010, which increased

33.9% compare to last year.

Among the tourists, 44.5% are from Hongkong, Taiwan, Janpan and

Korea; 19.2% are from England, USA,France, Germany and other

countiies.

Theme park in Shanghai

• Happy Valley

Shanghai Happy Valley is renowned as a theme park of beautiful scenery, huge areas to explore, superb scientific and technological content with breathtaking and exciting amusements. It is located in the central area of Shanghai Sheshan National Holiday Resort, Songjiang District, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of the downtown area.

• Statistics

Basic Statistics of Happy Valley

Area 90 Hectare

Officially open 16th Aug 2009

Visitors per day 21,700

Total visitors 35 millions (until Sep 2009)

Main visitors Shanghai local, 30% from Jiangsu & Zhejiang Province

Total benefit 36 millions (until Sep 2009)

Ticket fee 200 RMB

Happy Valley is composed of seven major areas, each with different themed zones, such as Sunshine Beach, Happy Times, Typhoon Bay, Gold Mine Town, Ant Kingdom, Shanghai Beach and Shangri-la Woods.

• Dino Beach

Dino Beach is a premier water park of the city. It is avant-garde water equipped with all the latest facilities and entertainment options.

The park comprises of a wave pool that sprawls across an area of 8 hectares and is considered to be the largest wave pool of Asia. Apart from this, the park boasts of eight water slides, of which the longest measures almost 150m; three swimming pools for kids; a mile-long river with rapids; organized beach volleyball; and water polo games.

• The landmark of Shanghai – The Bund

Tourist Spots

• The old town in city – Yu yuan City, next to the bund

• City Center – People Square

• Small western leisure town - Xin Tian Di

Xin Tian Di has become an urban

tourist attraction that holds the

historical and cultural legacies of

the city.

Xin Tian Di is a fashionable

pedestrian street composed of

Shikumen and modern

architecture style.

Tian-zi-fang is located at Taikang Road.

This street is an old street dotted with

local style Shikumen Houses, which is

one symbol of Shanghai folk culture

• Art street – Tian Zi Fang

• Old Millfun – 1933

Known as the “Old Millfun”, 1933 is one of three such slaughterhouses

built in the early twentieth century. Now it’s a center of folk art.

• Huai Hai Road

Commercial Center

• Xu Jia Hui

Located in the southwestern part of

Shanghai City, Xujiahui Commercial

District is clustered with a number of

large scale department stores and

shops covering 5 major roads of

Xuhui District.

• Nan Jing Lu

Nanjing Road is the main shopping street of Shanghai, and is one of the

world's busiest shopping streets.

• Plaza 66

Plaza 66 is a commercial and office

complex in Shanghai, consisting of a

shopping mall and two skyscrapers.

Most luxury brands are located in this

Plaza.

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