34 Facts About Chinese Shanghai

1. In 2012, Chinese Shanghai started to host 6 Hours of Shanghai as one round from the inaugural season of the FIA World Endurance Championship.

2. In 2010, Chinese Shanghai became the host city of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, which raced in a street circuit in Pudong.

3. Chinese Shanghai recorded an overall economic growth of 6.6 percent last year, with its GDP per capita exceeding 20,000 US dollars.

4. In 2018, Chinese Shanghai created 582,000 new jobs, and the urban registered unemployment rate was at 3.6 percent.

5. Chinese Shanghai has further enhanced of the functions of the financial and insurance services.

6. Chinese Shanghai is an international city that melts with different cultures from all over the world; we call it Shanghai Regional Culture.

7. Chinese Shanghai is one of the most populated cities in China.

8. In 2010, Chinese Shanghai became the host city of German Touring Car Masters, which raced in a street circuit in Pudong.

9. In recent times Chinese Shanghai has established its own fashion week called Shanghai Fashion Week.

10. Chinese Shanghai is home to one of China's largest aquariums, the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium.

11. Chinese Shanghai is sometimes considered a center of innovation and progress in China.

12. Chinese Shanghai has one of the world's largest number of Art Deco buildings as a result of the construction boom during the 1920s and 1930s.

13. Chinese Shanghai has a rich collection of buildings and structures of various architectural styles.

14. Chinese Shanghai is one of the leading air transport gateways in Asia.

15. Chinese Shanghai has one bridge-tunnel crossing spanning the mouth of the Yangtze to the north of the city.

16. In 2010, Chinese Shanghai reintroduced trams, this time as a modern rubber tyred Translohr system, in Zhangjiang area of East Shanghai as Zhangjiang Tram.

17. Chinese Shanghai has an extensive public transport system, largely based on metros, buses and taxis.

18. Chinese Shanghai has the largest number of international schools of any city in China.

19. Chinese Shanghai is a major center of higher education in China with over 30 universities and colleges.

20. Chinese Shanghai is the first city in the country to implement 9-year mandatory education.

21. Chinese Shanghai has more than 930 kindergartens, 1,200 primary and 850 middle schools.

22. Chinese Shanghai ranked first in the 2009 and 2012 Program for International Student Assessment, a worldwide study of academic performance of 15-year-old students conducted by the OECD.

23. Chinese Shanghai has one of the largest proportions of Catholics in China.

24. The White Cloud Temple of Chinese Shanghai is an important Taoist centre in the city.

25. The Chinese Shanghai-based SAIC Motor is one of the three largest automotive corporations in China, and has strategic partnerships with Volkswagen and General Motors.

26. Chinese Shanghai is one of the main industrial centers of China, playing a key role in China's heavy industries.

27. Chinese Shanghai is administratively equal to a province and is divided into 16 county-level districts.

28. Chinese Shanghai has a humid subtropical climate and experiences four distinct seasons.

29. The Old City and modern downtown Chinese Shanghai are now located in the center of an expanding peninsula between the Yangtze River Delta to the north and Hangzhou Bay to the south, formed by the Yangtze's natural deposition and by modern land reclamation projects.

30. Chinese Shanghai lies on China's east coast roughly equidistant from Beijing and Guangzhou.

31. Chinese Shanghai was finally permitted to initiate economic reforms in 1991, starting the massive development still seen today and the birth of Lujiazui in Pudong.

32. Chinese Shanghai is located in the time-zone called China Standard Time.

33. Chinese Shanghai was home to more than 170,000 expats as of 2015.

34. In 2016, Chinese Shanghai was named the most attractive city for expats for the fourth time in six years by International Talent Magazine.