Protesters gather in Shanghai to oppose new lithium battery factory
(People participate in a protest against a battery factory on a street of Songjiang district, on the outskirts of Shanghai on Saturday. Photo: Reuters)
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Shanghai yesterday to oppose plans for a lithium battery factory, highlighting growing social tension over pollution on the mainland.
Residents are concerned about potential waste water and gas emissions from the plant, which would be built by Hefei Guoxuan High-Tech Power Energy. (South China Morning Post)
1 month ago
Shanghai Cinema Studio
(The fake Nanking Road)
Shanghai Cinema studio had been on my visit list since a long time. The studio is famous to host a rebuilt version of Old Shanghai. It quite famous has it was for period movies and TV series, including “Lust, caution” and “Shanghai Shanghai“. It takes a long drive to reach the location in SongJiang but the trip is well worth it. (Shanghailander)
4 months ago
Oldest city archeology site opens
(Photo by Wang Rongjiang)
The Guangfulin archeological site in Songjiang District, where Shanghai’s earliest known residents lived about 5,000 years ago, opened to the public for the first time yesterday.
More than 100 local residents and media reporters visited the late Neolithic period (c. 80th century - 20th century BC) site covering 250,000 square meters, the city’s largest and most important archaeological site that had been closed since it was discovered in 1958. (Shanghai Daily)
1 year ago
Outlying transport hubs in works
Shanghai will start building 14 new transport hubs close to large residential areas this year, mainly in suburban districts including Jiading, Qingpu and Songjiang, to help with traffic flow as the outlying regions gain more population. (Shanghai Daily)
1 year ago
Ground broken on Shanghai's amazing underground hotel
A few years ago, British engineering firm Atkins won the rights to design an extravagant hotel deep within a 100-metre pit in Shanghai’s Songjiang District near the base of Tianmashan Mountain.
Construction on the Intercontinental Shimao Shanghai Wonderland finally commenced last month, and the hotel is scheduled to open in late 2014 to early 2015. (Shanghaiist)
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1 year ago
Five areas earmarked for growth
Shanghai is planning to control the number of people living in the downtown area and encourage more residents to move to outlying areas over the next five years. Further development of the suburban satellite cities of Jiading, Songjiang, Jinshan, Nanqiao and Lingang is one of the aims of the 12th Five-Year Plan which kicks off this year. (Shanghai Daily)
2 years ago
The Giant Interactive Group Campus
At what point is a building complete? Is it when construction ends? When users move in? And how does one factor in the contributions of its occupants when assessing a building? Does an apparent conflict between the architects’ vision and the residents’ tastes indicate a failure? An opportunity? An inevitability?
The Giant Interactive Group headquarters is a big, complicated Morphosis building plopped down in the middle of a big, empty field. It is long and lean and low-rise, equal parts opaque and transparent, with an undulating green roof that provides welcome topographical variety to its flat, former swampland site. The headquarters is located in Songjiang, an ancient town now incorporated into greater Shanghai. Giant Group’s campus is to be the centrepiece of Songjiang’s new “civilized industrial area,” but at the moment it stands largely alone. (Domus)
2 years ago
