About Shanghai
Linda Gu
Table of Contents General Information Geography Transportation Economy Culture & Arts Media Tourism
General Information
Basic Info Chinese Name: English Name: Phone code: Location: Area: Population: Dialect: Airport: Train station: GDP:
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
Geography ďƒ˜ Administrative division
Shanghai is divided into 17 districts and 1 country
- Uptown - Downtown
ďƒ˜ City Map
ďƒ˜ 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
ďƒ˜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.
ďƒ˜ Bus 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.
ďƒ˜ 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
ďƒ˜ Metro 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.
Line 3
Line 2
Shanghai Metro Map
ďƒ˜ Shanghai Maglev Train 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
ďƒ˜ Hong Qiao Airport
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.
ďƒ˜ Pudong International Airport
Pudong International Airport , which is located at eastern edge of Pudong district, 40 km from downtown.
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.
ďƒ˜ Domestic & Foreign Economy 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.
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
Shanghai
Rank third in the world stock exchange market
Second biggest futures trading center worldwide
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.
ďƒ˜ High Education Shanghai has a lot famous universites nationalwide and worldwide.
Tong Ji University
Jiao Tong University Fudan University Songjiang University Community
ďƒ˜ Language 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.
German
Shanghainese Mandarin
Japanese Chinese Dialect Korean
French
English
Museums 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
Cinemas & Theaters 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. Peace Cinema Shanghai Grand Theater Shanghai Cinema
Media Entertainment
Information center of China and Asia
. Communication
Shanghai Media Group (SMG) 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
DMG • Moblie TV on metro and bus from DMG
Newspaper • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
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
ďƒ˜ Fashion SHANGHAI has becoming a city of fashion and take the lead of the world fashion trend.
Dior
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.
Chanel
Global Events 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.
International Film Festival
Special Olympic Opening The Formula One
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.
ďƒ˜ 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.
Tourist Spots • The landmark of Shanghai – The Bund
• 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.
• Art street – Tian Zi Fang 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
• 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.
Commercial Center • Huai Hai Road
• 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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