Shanghai
Shanghai is the first big city of the Chinese mainland as well as the center of the economy, finance, trade and shipping. It has the largest industrial base and foreign trade port of China. It is an international metropolis that shining all over the world.
Geography
The city is located in western coast of the Pacific, at the east of Asian continent, and seated at the mouth of the Yangtze River and middle portion of the Chinese coast. Due to its convenient transportation, vast hinterland and superior geographical position, Shanghai becomes a good harbor.
Area
The land area is 6340.5 square kilometers, with the coastline of about 172 kilometers.
Altitude
It is with an average elevation of 4 meters
Climate
Shanghai has a north subtropical monsoon climate and experiences four distinct seasons. It is always along with the full sunshine, plenty of rain and mild and wet climate. While the spring and autumn is short, and winter and summer is very long.
Economy
In 2009, the per capita GDP of the whole city reaches $11451. The per capita GDP and per capita disposable income take the first place in all the provinces and municipalities of the country.
Finance
The financial economy of Shanghai is the first in China. The total direct financing of the financial market is more than a quarter of the nation and absorption of foreign capital is about one - tenth of the whole country. While the quantity of fund management company accounts for more than half. In addition, the number of the domestic headquarters of the foreign bank accounts for about two-thirds of the country, whose assets account for 85% of all the foreign banks of China. And the number of the headquarters of foreign legal person property accounts for about five sevenths of the China. The number of regional headquarters of multinational companies also takes the first place, among which a lot of Fortune 500 enterprises especially the large transnational companies in the high-end field of the third industry have chosen Shanghai to set up their headquarters of Asian-Pacific region or of China.
Shanghai is the second largest stock market center, second largest futures market center and one of the ten largest derivatives market centers of the world. Meanwhile, it is also the second largest diamond spot trading center in the world.
Industry
The industry of Shanghai is very developed, and the total industrial outputs account for one tenth of China, which are mainly involved with steel, automobiles, biological medicine, aerospace, high-end shipbuilding, precision instrument, electrical engineering, equipment manufacturing, petrochemical industry, electronic industry. The industries that focused on are electronic information products manufacturing, automobile manufacturing, petroleum chemical industry and fine chemical manufacturing, quality steel manufacturing, complete sets of equipment manufacturing and biological medicine manufacturing.
Infrastructure Facilities
A batch of iconic major city construction projects that bridge and tunnel across the river, freeway, highway, rail transportation, international airport, Yangshan deep water port, the east sea bridge (the first long distance bridge of China), and others have been built successively. The major urban infrastructure system of hub, function, and network has been formed.
Transportation
Shanghai is the important transportation hub of China. In 2009, the total quantities of goods transportation by various transportation means reached 769.6757 million tons, and the number of passengers to be sent reached 111.3625 million. The number of annual takeoff and landing flight in Pudong international airport and Hongqiao international airport reached 477 thousands, where the number of passengers was 56.9996 million. By the end, Shanghai has established airlines with 183 cities, including 96 international and regional cities.
Shanghai is the largest port and the famous international transit port. In 2010, the throughput of goods and container in Shanghai port reached 653 million tons and 29.069 million TEU respectively. That takes the first place in the world. The air routes of world 20 large shipping enterprise have been already opened in Shanghai.
Exhibition
In 2009, 243various international exhibition projects were held in Shanghai, the total exhibition area arrived 5.6044 million square meters, and the number of passengers who visited the exhibitions reached 7.74 million. In 2010, the world expo had been successfully hosted with exhibitions of the two hundreds countries and international organizations, which became the world expo with most countries and organizations in the history.
Technology and Education
By the end of 2009, Shanghai had approved 6581high and new technological achievements transformation projects, among which 69% of the projects had completed industry transformation. There were 791 high-tech achievements to be approved all the year, among which projects of electronic information, biological medicine, new material and such key areas of project accounted for 88.6%.
From the beginning to the end of 2009, there were 66 regular higher institutions, and the number of recruiting undergraduate and college students reached 143500. There were 54 institutions to train postgraduates and enrollments of postgraduates reached 37400.
Foreign Relations
In 2009, the amount of Shanghai customs import and export was $515.489 billion in total, among which the import and the export reached $325.128 billion and $190.361 billion respectively. The total volume of Shanghai import and export was 277.731 billion dollars, among which the import and the export reached $141.914 billion and $135.817 billion respectively.
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