Shanghai is often regarded as the center of finance and trade in mainland China. Modern development began with the economic reforms in 1992, a decade later than many of the Southern Chinese provinces, but since then Shanghai quickly overtook those pr...

Shanghai is administratively equal to a province and is divided into 19 county-level divisions: 18 districts and one county. There is no single downtown district in Shanghai, the urban core is scattered across several districts. Prominent central bus...

Shanghai has been a political hub of China since the 20th century. Many of China's top government officials in Beijing are known to have risen in Shanghai in the 1980s on a platform that was critical of the extreme leftism of the Cultural Revolution,...

Shanghai sits on the Yangtze River Delta on China's east coast roughly equidistant between Beijing and Hong Kong. The municipality as a whole consists of a peninsula between the Yangtze and Hangzhou Bay, China's third largest island Chongming, and a...

Before the formation of Shanghai city, the area was part of Songjiang county (松江縣), governed by Suzhou prefecture (蘇州府). From the time of the Song Dynasty (AD 960–1279), Shanghai gradually became a busy seaport. A city wall wa...

The two Chinese characters in the name "Shanghai", (上, sh㠮g; and 海, h玩) literally mean "up, on, or above" and "sea", respectively, evident of Shanghai's location next to the East China Sea. The earliest occ...

Shanghai (Chinese: 上海) is the most populous city in China, and one of the largest urban areas in the world, with a population of over 20 million people in its metropolitan area. Located on China's east coast at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the...