In April 2005, Jaime Lerner participated in the Symposium of China Bus Rapid Transit Initiative ( Shanghai ) to promote the BRT project in some larger cities.

Taken together on a like-for-like basis, London Underground and Docklands Light Railway operate of track, longer than the Shanghai Metro ( excluding the Shanghai Maglev line ).

Excluding the Shanghai Maglev line and the two light metro lines, the Shanghai Metro has of heavy rail rapid transit routes, compared to the London Underground's.

The " Chinese Hindenberg Line ," which the government had spent millions to construct and was the final line of defense between Shanghai and Nanking, collapsed in only two weeks.

In line with these observations, Greece's former Minister of Tourism Aris Spiliotopoulos announced the opening of a Greek National Tourism Organization office in Shanghai by the end of 2010, and GNTO currently operates two tourism offices in China, one in Shanghai and one in Beijing.

A planned extension of the line to Shanghai Hongqiao Airport () and onward to the city of Hangzhou () has been repeatedly delayed.

Huang served in a role to keep the city's party organization in line, and is remembered for by some as having raised the incomes of Shanghai people.

* Shanghai has a few underground networks, most notably at the People's Square metro station, wherein the line 2 station has a second mezzanine full of shops and line 1 is connected to a large underground shopping gallery at its south end.

Shanghai Science Museum stop on line 2 has a large underground shopping area, known for its imitation goods.

For example, at the Nagoya railway station in Japan, small-and large-capacity taxis line up separately ; while at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport in Shanghai, short-and long-distance taxis use separate queues.

Thus, the front line was lengthened from metropolitan Shanghai along the Huangpu River to the northeast coastal districts.

The Chinese offensive in the urban center had ground to a halt, and the fighting in downtown Shanghai essentially became a stalemate with both sides suffering heavy losses and making minimal changes in the front line.

Launched in 2010, and replacing the Shanghai Maple brand, Englon () emulates classic, British style, and its model line includes a TX4 sold on the Chinese market.

On the same day, AFP reported that the Shanghai City government will keep open a subway line to the race track to boost spectator numbers from April 15 – 17, 2011.

There is no direct rail service between Yangzhou and Shanghai, however ; to travel to Shanghai, or elsewhere in the Yangtze Delta regions, passengers cross the Yangtze over the new Runyang Bridge to Zhengzhou ( frequent commuter bus service is available ) and take a train from the Zhenjiang Railway Station, which is located on the main Nanjing-Shanghai rail line.

With completion of the high-speed highway in 2008, a new bus line was opened between Shanghai and Jinshan.

The M-Bahn was the second Maglev line to open to public traffic, after the Birmingham Maglev but before the Shanghai Maglev Train.

With the early successes of the Expedition, there was soon a race between Chiang Kai-shek leading the " right-wing " of the Nationalist Party and the Communists, running inside the " left-wing " of the Nationalists, for control of major southern cities such as Nanjing and Shanghai.

Those defending the city encountered Chinese troops fleeing from previous defeats such as the Battle of Shanghai, running from the advancing Japanese army.

The movie DVD includes a choice between English or Japanese audio and includes some extras such as the Japanese trailer for the movie and perhaps most interesting an extra feature that shows Masaya Masukaze and Shou Hagiwara ( the Japanese voice actors for Ryo Hazuki and Ren of Heavens ) dressed as their character and running around Shanghai.

On 11 August 2006, a Transrapid train running on Shanghai Maglev Line caught fire.

Stokes's private company, in conjunction with Shanghai People's Press, is no longer running a business after five years in Shanghai.

I am not yet able to find a list of Jardine Matheson ships in late 19 century, running between Shanghai and Hong Kong.

The Shanghai Tunnels, less commonly known as the Portland Underground, are a group of passages running underneath Old Town / Chinatown down to the central downtown section of Portland, Oregon, United States.

His daughter Wu Yinghua and her husband Ma Yueh-liang continued running the Shanghai Chien-ch ' uan T ' ai Chi Ch ' uan Association until their deaths in the mid 1990s.

* July 1 – High-speed trains on the Shanghai – Nanjing line begin running, cutting journey times between the two cities by more than an hour, to just 73 minutes

After the takeover of the Republican government by Yuan Shikai and the failed Second Revolution in 1913, Chiang, like his KMT comrades, divided time between exile in Japan and the havens of the Shanghai International Settlement.

Another theory is that a nobleman living in the Shanghai area created the game between 1870 and 1875.

In addition, conflicts have arisen in the relations of the central Party leaders with the few provincial-level Municipalities, most notably the municipal government of Shanghai and the rivalry between former Beijing mayor Chen Xitong and Jiang Zemin.

Officials with ties to the Shanghai administration form a powerful faction in the national government, the so-called Shanghai Clique, which often competes against the rival Youth League Faction over personnel appointments and policy decisions: Xi Jinping, the presumptive successor to Hu Jintao as General Secretary and President, is a compromise candidate between the two groups with supporters in both camps.

* January 28 – Conflict between Japan and China in the Battle of Shanghai.

After Zhou's release, he and the Awakening Society met with several Beijing organizations and agreed to form a " Reform Federation "; during these activities Zhou became more familiar with Li Dazhao and met Zhang Shenfu, who was the contact between Li in Beijing and Chen Duxiu in Shanghai.

The reasons for Zhou's sudden release may have been that Zhou was then the most senior Communist in Shanghai, that Chiang's efforts to exterminate the Shanghai Communists were highly secretive at the time, and that his execution would have been noticed as a violation of the cooperation agreement between the CCP and the KMT ( which was technically still in effect ).

Novelist Ishikawa Tatsuzo vividly described how the 16th Division of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force committed atrocities on the march between Shanghai and Nanking in his novel Ikiteiru Heitai ( Living Soldiers ), which was based on interviews that Tatsuzo conducted with troops in Nanking in January 1938.

* 2004 – the first commercial high speed Maglev train starts operation between Shanghai and its airport.

Two such lines, the Wufu Line ( 吳福線 ) between Suzhou and Fushan, and the Xicheng Line ( 錫澄線 ) between Wuxi and Jiangyin, were built to protect the road to Nanking, in case Shanghai should fall into enemy hands.

* The January 28 Incident ( 1932 ) between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan in, and around, Shanghai

With track upgrades, service speeds have increased ; since 21 December 2008, a high-speed CRH2E sleeper train service even runs between Beijing and Shanghai.

Zhū Róngjī ( pinyin: Zhū Róngjī ; Wade-Giles: Chu Jung-chi ; IPA: ; born 23 October 1928 in Changsha, Hunan ) is a prominent Chinese politician who served as the Mayor and Party chief in Shanghai between 1987 and 1991, before serving as Vice-Premier and then the fifth Premier of the People's Republic of China from March 1998 to March 2003.

As the mayor of Shanghai from 1989 to 1991, Zhu won popular respect and acclaim for overseeing the development of Pudong, a Singapore-sized Special Economic Zone ( SEZ ) wedged between Shanghai proper and the East China Sea, as well the modernization of the city's telecommunications, urban construction, and transport sectors.

Construction of a 4, 200-km-long pipeline from Xinjiang to Shanghai ( West – East Gas Pipeline ) was completed in 2004.

Eight of the districts govern Puxi ( " Huangpu West Bank "), the older part of urban Shanghai on the west bank of the Huangpu River.

Improving technology and increasing control of world markets allowed British traders to develop a commercial chain in which raw cotton fibers were ( at first ) purchased from colonial plantations, processed into cotton cloth in the mills of Lancashire, and then exported on British ships to captive colonial markets in West Africa, India, and China ( via Shanghai and Hong Kong ).

** Shanghai Centre West Apartment ( also known as the Exhibition Centre North Apartment 1 )

Hwang is also at work on three new musicals — Bruce Lee: Journey to the West, with music and lyrics by David Yazbeck, Pretty Dead Girl with music and lyrics by Anne-Marie Milazzo, and Where or When, a dance musical by Christopher Gattelli and others — as well a play on the memoirs of Chinese-British actress Tsai Chin entitled Daughter of Shanghai.

The first hotel to bear this brand was The Great Eastern Hotel in London, with additional properties now open in San Diego, West Hollywood, Shanghai and New York City ( Andaz Wall Street & Andaz 5th Avenue ).

Pudong is distinguished from Puxi (" West Bank "), the older part of Shanghai.

The museum was founded in 1952 and was first open to the public in the former Shanghai Racecourse club house, now at 325 West Nanjing Road.

* Shanghai, West Virginia, United States

During the Second World war when the city was occupied by the Japanese, 20, 000 Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe lived in a notoriously overcrowded square-mile section known to the West as the Shanghai ghetto.

* West of Shanghai ( 1937 )

The district also has some of the best secondary schools in the municipality, such as South West Weiyu Middle School, Shanghai High School and Nanyang Model High School.

The Shanghai West Train Station is in Putuo District.

Jing ' an Temple () is a Buddhist temple on West Nanjing Road, in Jing ' an District, Shanghai, China.

Puxi ( Chinese:, Pǔxī, " Huangpu West Bank ") is the historic center of Shanghai, China, and remains the home of approximately 48 % of Shanghai's residents in an area of 288 km².

Hung Hom serves as the southern terminus of both East Rail Line and West Rail Line, as well as the terminus of cross-border services with destinations to major cities in China including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, as well as Zhaoqing, Foshan, Dongguan in Guangdong.

Pink Martini songs appear in such films as In the Cut, Nurse Betty, Josie and the Pussycats, Tortilla Soup, Shanghai Kiss, Mary and Max, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith and have been used on television shows such as Dead Like Me, The Sopranos and The West Wing, among others.

West Nanjing Road begins here, and features a number of upmarket malls, office buildings, the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, and shops.

" Shanghai ", in ZUN's mind, is a multicultural city where the East and the West meet.