Districts of the direct-controlled municipality of Shanghai are administratively on the same level as prefecture-level cities. However, the government of Pudong has a status equivalent to that of a sub-provincial city, which is half a level above a p...

Pudong literally means "East of the [Huang]pu". Pudong is bounded by the Huangpu river in the west and the East China Sea in the east. It has an area of 522.8 km² and a population of approximately 1.5 million people. Pudong is contrast...

Pudong (simplified Chinese: 浦东; traditional Chinese: 浦東; pinyin: P甤卮g), officially known as Pudong New Area (浦東新区, pinyin: P甤卮g X䫮 Q嫩, is a district of Shanghai, China that enjoys sub-provincial administrat...

Shanghai City, the most prosperous international metropolis in China, has won its bid for the Expo 2010. It is a good opportunity for China to show its achievements in the fields of social construction, science and technology, economy and culture. Th...

Because of Shanghai's status as the cultural and economic center of East Asia for the first half of the twentieth century, it is popularly seen as the birthplace of everything considered modern in China. It was in Shanghai, for example, that the firs...

Shanghai has a rich collection of buildings and structures of various architectural styles. The Bund, located by the bank of the Huangpu River, contains a rich collection of early 20th century architecture, ranging in style from neo-classical HSBC Bu...

Shanghai has an extensive public transportation system, largely based on buses, and a rapidly expanding metro system. For a city of Shanghai's size, road traffic is still fairly smooth and convenient but getting more congested as the number of cars i...

The 2000 census put the population of Shanghai Municipality at 16.738 million, including the migrant population, which made up 3.871 million. Since the 1990 census the total population had increased by 3.396 million, or 25.5%. Males accounted for 51....