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23 unusual facts about Shanghai


Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists

In May 2009, ACAMS signed an agreement with Fudan University in Shanghai to jointly provide anti-money laundering training throughout mainland China.

Canidrome

Canidrome (Shanghai) - a former grand-scale greyhound racing stadium in Shanghai, now the Shanghai Cultural Plaza.

China Marines

The term China Marines originally referred to those United States Marines from the 4th Marine Regiment who were stationed in Shanghai, China during 1927 - 1941 to protect American citizens and their property in the Shanghai International Settlement during the Chinese Revolution and the Second Sino-Japanese War.

China Railways DFH shunting locomotives

One example was produced for shunting in the Chinese port of Huangpu District, Shanghai.

Chio Lim Stone Forest

Ltd is an international corporate advisory firm with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Chengdu and Shenzhen.

CSCL

China Shipping Container Lines, a containerized marine shipping company, based in Shanghai China.

George Ruebner

Ruebner, a wing, was born in Shanghai and claimed a total of 2 international caps for Australia.

Harvard Summit for Young Leaders in China

HSYLC 2006, supported by the Goldman Sachs Foundation and American Airlines, recruited 37 Harvard students to create and teach a curriculum at a school in Shanghai.

History of Korea

The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea was established in Shanghai, China, in the aftermath of March 1 Movement, which coordinated the Liberation effort and resistance against Japanese control.

Laoximen Station

The station is located in Huangpu District, near the intersection of East Fuxing Road and South Xizang Road.

Laticrete International, Inc.

Ltd in the Songjiang District of Shanghai represents the first wholly owned Laticrete manufacturing facility outside the United States.

Malaysia Airlines fleet

The airline deployed these aircraft to fly medium-to-long-haul routes, such as Auckland, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Tokyo and Shanghai.

Nanjing Military Region

Its jurisdiction covers all military and armed police located in Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Shanghai.

Oriental Pearl Tower

On 7 July 2007, Oriental Pearl Tower was host to the Chinese Live Earth concert.

Qin Yu

Qin Yu (born June 1964) was briefly the chief of Baoshan District in Shanghai, China.

Sandhya Mridul

In 2008, she served as a member of the jury in the 14th Television Festival held in Shanghai.

Shanghai Post

Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, an American-owned English-language newspaper published in Shanghai.

Shanghai Xingzhi High School

Located in the Baoshan district north of Shanghai, it was named after Tao Xingzhi, a prominent educator.

Shanghai-Kowloon Through Train

The Shanghai-Kowloon Through Train is an intercity railway service between Kowloon Station (also known as Hung Hom Station) in Hong Kong and the Shanghai Railway Station, jointly operated by the MTR of Hong Kong and China's national rail service (Shanghai Railway Bureau).

Tanner Richie

He performed all over the United States and also in Shanghai, China, for three weeks, and Seoul, Korea, for four weeks.

Yantai stingray

The Yantai stingray was described by Yuanting Chu in his 1960 Cartilaginous Fishes of China, based on specimens obtained from the Shanghai Fish Market, Dongfushan, and Huaniao.

Yuan Shansong

During the rebellion of Sun En in 399, he died defending Hudu (in the western suburbs of modern Shanghai).

Yue Festival

The Yue Festival is a live music festival featuring Chinese and international performers, in Shanghai, China.


An Chang-ho

He established the Young Korean Academy (흥사단; 興士團) in San Francisco in 1913 and was a key member in the founding of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in Shanghai in 1919.

Baishatuo Railway Bridge

Completed in 1960, the bridge was the first bridge over the Yangzte River in Chongqing and only the second bridge along the main stretch of the river between Yibin and the river mouth in Shanghai.

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

In 2012 they won the EuroShop RetailDesign award for the Uniqlo flagship store in Shanghai based on the strength of its spectacular dynamic merchandising.

Brad Fregger

He was the producer of Activision's Ghostbusters, the game Hacker, the Atari and Commodore 64 versions of Pitfall II and Shanghai (the first commercial version of Brodie Lockard's Mahjong solitaire), and he designed and produced the first commercial version of computer solitaire (Solitaire Royale, published by Spectrum Holobyte).

Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini

During his time in China, he called the first episcopal conference in Shanghai in 1924, made constitutions for the mission in China, helped the foundation of Fu Jen Catholic University and the episcopal promotion of six Chinese priests, and instituted several regional major seminaries.

Craig S. Smith

He joined The New York Times as Shanghai bureau chief in 2000 and wrote extensively about the practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners in China.

Cundall Johnston and Partners

Founded in Newcastle and Edinburgh, Cundall now has United Kingdom offices in London, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester, with Australian offices in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide plus offices in Dubai, Doha, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Cyprus in Paphos and Nicosia, Madrid, Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest in Romania.

Death Over Shanghai

Death Over Shanghai (German:Tod über Shanghai) is a 1932 German thriller film directed by Rolf Randolf and starring Gerda Maurus, Else Elster and Theodor Loos.

Emily Hahn

There she became involved with prominent Shanghai figures, such as the wealthy Sir Victor Sassoon, and was in the habit of taking her pet gibbon, Mr. Mills, with her to dinner parties, dressed in a diaper and a minute dinner jacket.

Fujian Tulou

Since the opening of the high-speed Longyan–Xiamen Railway (June 2012), travelers are able to reach Longyan from Xiamen in 45 minutes; there is direct service from Fuzhou and Shanghai as well.

Glorious Property Holdings

Projects include Sunshine Holiday in Tianjin and Shanghai Bay, situated along the Huangpu River.

Iloilo-Negros Air Express

Later, with flights to San Francisco, Shanghai, and India, it became the country’s first international airline service.

Interactive Brokers

(IB) is a U.S. based online discount brokerage firm headquartered in Greenwich CT in the United States and with offices in Budapest, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Montreal, Mumbai, Shanghai, Saint Petersburg, Sydney, Tallinn, Tokyo, and Zug.

Jade Kwan

She then competed in the New Talent Singing Awards International Finals 1999 (1999 年全球華人新秀歌唱大賽, also representing Vancouver) and won the "Best Potential Newcomer Award" (最具潛質獎) at the International Finals held in Shanghai, China.

James Zhang

Zhang was the founder and CEO of digital arts developer Concept Art House, backed by superangel Matthew Le Merle, and headquartered in San Francisco and Shanghai.

Jervis B. Webb Company

The company headquarters is in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with offices and manufacturing plants internationally including Carlisle, South Carolina; Harbor Springs, Michigan; Boyne City, Michigan; Hamilton, Ontario; Northampton, England; Ludwigshafen, Germany; Palaiseau, France; Barcelona, Spain; Shanghai, China and Bangalore, India.

Jia Xiuquan

Once again he took another training position with Shanghai but because English Head Coach Howard Wilkinson resigned before the start of the beginning of the league season Jia acted as the head coach through the majority of the season, Shanghai ultimately ended the season finishing 10th.

John Howkins

In 2006 Howkins became chairman of the John Howkins Research Centre on the Creative Economy, launched by the Shanghai Municipal Government at the Shanghai School of Creativity, Shanghai Theatre Academy.

Jonathan Kearney

During this period Kearney held exhibitions in the famous 798 Art Zone of Beijing and in Shanghai, including the 6th Shanghai Biennale where he was part of the first ever Liverpool Biennial exhibition at the Shanghai Biennale.

Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies

The cooperation of the KazISS expanded and included Asian partners in China (Shanghai Institute for International Studies), India (Jawaharlal Nehru University) as well as Russia (the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation).

Kunqu

Today, Kunqu is performed professionally in seven Mainland Chinese major cities: Beijing (Northern Kunqu Theatre), Shanghai (Shanghai Kunqu Theatre), Suzhou (Suzhou Kunqu Theatre), Nanjing (Jiangsu Province Kunqu Theatre), Chenzhou (Hunan Kunqu Theatre), Yongjia County/Wenzhou (Yongjia Kunqu Theatre) and Hangzhou (Zhejiang Province Kunqu Theatre), as well as in Taipei.

Kunshan

The nearest airport is the Hongqiao Airport, around 55 km away in west Shanghai, with a driving distance of 45 mins from the Yushan town centre.

Lujiazui

The importance of Lujiazui stems from the fact that it lies directly across the river from the Bund, the old financial and business district of Shanghai, and just south of the confluence of the Suzhou Creek with the Huangpu River.

Margary Affair

As part of efforts to explore overland trade routes between British India and China province, junior British diplomat Augustus Raymond Margary was sent from Shanghai through southwest China to Bhamo in Upper Burma, where he was supposed to met Colonel Horace Browne.

Mu Shiying

He was born in Cixi, Ningbo, Zhejiang and studied Chinese literature at Shanghai Guanghua University (上海光華大學).

Nola pumila

It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics, including China (Shanghai), Formosa, Sikkim, Assam, India, Burma, Sulawesi and New Guinea.

Peppermoon

In early 2010, they toured in these countries for the first time, playing in Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo and Kyoto.

Qi Hong

During his time with the national team he and fellow Shanghai team members, Fan Zhiyi and Xie Hui were called "The Three Musketeers".

Radio Canada International

Before beginning its Mandarin Chinese service, RCI produced a 40-week series called Everyday English which was broadcast in 1988 and early 1989 over local stations in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.

Scott Ragsdale

Ragsdale began his career at Marcus Evans, where he was General Manager in 7 countries, including opening the company’s office in Shanghai, China.

Self-Strengthening Movement

As a result of treaties with the Western powers, the two ports of Tianjin and Shanghai were opened to Western trade.

Shanghai Metal Exchange

SHME is located in the city of Shanghai and its geographical location bridges the time gap between London Metal Exchange and New York Mercantile Exchange markets, thus enabling traders across the world to have a 24-hour access to futures contracts of non-ferrous metals.

Shanghai North Railway Station

The station was established as the Shanghai Railway Station in 1909 by the Qing government.

Shanghai Volkswagen

Shanghai Volkswagen (officially Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd.) is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Anting, China and a joint venture between Volkswagen Group and SAIC Motor.

Sherwood Hu

Lani Loa - The Passage was a Hawaiian ghost story/cop movie/spiritual love story, shot in Shanghai and Hawaii, and starred Angus Macfadyen, Ray Bumatai and Chris Tashima.

Simon Willson

Traveling with a group of more than 20 performers and crew performing in 81 large nightclubs and discos in 33 Major Chinese cities including Hong Kong, Chengdu, Shanghai, Dongguan, Shenzen, Shantou, Guangzhou, Beijing and Harbin nearly all the way to Mongolia.

Starcom IP Asia

Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.

The Postmodern Life of My Aunt

The film is set and was filmed in Shanghai and in Anshan, Liaoning, Northeast China (note: Anshan is the birthplace of director Ann Hui).

The PuLi Hotel and Spa

The PuLi Hotel and Spa is a luxury hotel in China that is located in Jing'an District, Shanghai, between NanJing West Road and Yan An Road.

TOM Group

Capitalizing on its innovative media and comprehensive network, OMG has 15 subsidiaries located in major cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Chengdu to provide clients with tailor-made services and one-stop shop solutions.

Transport in Macau

It was inaugurated on December 1995 and has since established a number of regulars flights between Macau and major cities in Northeast and Southeast Asia, for example Bangkok, Beijing, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, etc.

Walter Hillier

He was the brother of Edward Guy Hillier, one of the most respected bankers in the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank and its long-term manager in Peking (1889-1924).

Wang Qiucen

By 1940, he was already well-recognized in the artistic community, having held several personal exhibitions in Shanghai and Chongqing.

Xujiahui

While central Xujiahui was administratively part of the Chinese area of Shanghai, it was in reality controlled by the Catholic Church, which was closely associated with the French authorities of the French Concession.

Yu Guozhen

In 1894, the North American Presbyterian missionary John Farnham took holiday leave and returned home, handing over the pastoral responsibility of a Shanghai Presbyterian church congregation on Hanyang road to pastor Yu.

Zhabei District

Major companies located in Zhabei include TÜV Rheinland, Royal Philips Electronics and Shanghai Bell Alcatel Business Systems Co., LTD.

Zhou Zhengyi

Born in a family of seven children in Yangpu District of Shanghai, Zhou started working at 17 without completing high school.