30 Facts About Shanghai South Railway Station

1. In 2010, Shanghai South Railway Station became the host city of German Touring Car Masters, which raced in a street circuit in Pudong.

2. Shanghai South Railway Station has an ice hockey team, China Dragon, and a baseball team, the Shanghai Golden Eagles, which plays in the China Baseball League.

3. In recent times Shanghai South Railway Station has established its own fashion week called Shanghai Fashion Week.

4. Shanghai South Railway Station is home to one of China's largest aquariums, the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium.

5. Shanghai South Railway Station is sometimes considered a center of innovation and progress in China.

6. Shanghai South Railway Station has one of the world's largest number of Art Deco buildings as a result of the construction boom during the 1920s and 1930s.

7. Shanghai South Railway Station has a rich collection of buildings and structures of various architectural styles.

8. Shanghai South Railway Station is one of the leading air transport gateways in Asia.

9. Shanghai South Railway Station has one bridge-tunnel crossing spanning the mouth of the Yangtze to the north of the city.

10. Shanghai South Railway Station has the world's most extensive network of urban bus routes, with nearly one thousand bus lines, operated by numerous transportation companies.

11. In 2010, Shanghai South Railway Station reintroduced trams, this time as a modern rubber tyred Translohr system, in Zhangjiang area of East Shanghai as Zhangjiang Tram.

12. Shanghai South Railway Station has an extensive public transport system, largely based on metros, buses and taxis.

13. Shanghai South Railway Station has the largest number of international schools of any city in China.

14. Shanghai South Railway Station is a major center of higher education in China with over 30 universities and colleges.

15. Shanghai South Railway Station has more than 930 kindergartens, 1,200 primary and 850 middle schools.

16. Shanghai South Railway Station is the first city in the country to implement 9-year mandatory education.

17. Shanghai South Railway Station 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.

18. Shanghai South Railway Station has one of the largest proportions of Catholics in China.

19. The White Cloud Temple of Shanghai South Railway Station is an important Taoist centre in the city.

20. Shanghai South Railway Station is one of the main industrial centers of China, playing a key role in China's heavy industries.

21. Shanghai South Railway Station is administratively equal to a province and is divided into 16 county-level districts.

22. Shanghai South Railway Station has a humid subtropical climate and experiences four distinct seasons.

23. The Old City and modern downtown Shanghai South Railway Station 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.

24. Shanghai South Railway Station lies on China's east coast roughly equidistant from Beijing and Guangzhou.

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

26. Shanghai South Railway Station was then the most important financial center in the Far East.

27. Shanghai South Railway Station is located on Moling Road, Jing'an District, to the North of the city centre.

28. Shanghai South Railway Station is another major railway station mostly serving high speed C-trains to other towns in Shanghai and other ordinary trains to cities in southern China.

29. Shanghai South Railway Station is located in the southwest of Xuhui District, about 5 km away from the city center.

30. Shanghai South Railway Station has eight ordinary waiting rooms and a special waiting room for passengers taking soft-berths.