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In a bid to strengthen its consumer economy and boost its global influence, Shanghai is offering brands that open their first store in Asia (or indeed the world) in Shanghai a one-time reward of RMB 1 million (about £111,000). High-quality product launches and debut exhibitions held in the city will also have access to subsidies of up to RMB 1.2 million. The incentive is part of the “First in Shanghai” …

In April 2019, the Shanghai International Circuit hosted the 1,000th Formula One Grand Prix. Little could drivers and fans have known, that it would be the last F1 race China would see until 2024. Formula One is back in China for the first time in five years this weekend, the latest in a series of major sporting events to return after the restrictions of the pandemic years. F1 currently has …

AstraZeneca’s new Shanghai R&D centre is helping to make the city one of the world’s most high-tech biopharmaceutical hubs At the opening ceremony of International Biopharma Industry Week Shanghai on 11 October, CEO of AstraZeneca, Pascal Soriot, announced the inauguration of its newly-upgraded global R&D centre. As reported by Yicai Global, at the ceremony Soriot said that the new centre has introduced “state-of-the-art technologies and expanded our R&D team to …

How can Shanghai’s vibrant art market coexist with state control, and how does a top-down emphasis on art and design support or contradict city’s desire to be an international finance centre? Paul French speaks to author Jenny Lin to find out Jenny Lin lived in Shanghai for many years and is now Associate Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California. Her recent book “Above Sea: Contemporary Art, …

A new policy offers a boost to high-tech industries like semiconductors and AI in Pudong, Shanghai, in what could be a golden opportunity for British businesses and investors On 15 July 2021, the Community Party of China Central Committee and the State Council issued a set of guidelines supporting the high-level reform and opening up of Pudong New Area in Shanghai, and to make it a pioneer of “socialist modernisation.” …

Heatherwick Studio’s partner Lisa Finlay discusses the firm’s current ambitious landscaping project, 1,000 Trees, their past designing the British Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, and future architectural trends in China, with Clizia Sala   The renders of the 1000 Trees Project under construction along the Suzhou River in Shanghai look stunning and extremely ambitious. Can you describe the project? The project has the shape of two mountains topped by living …

As China brings into effect further recycling rules, could the country become a new model for urban recycling, asks Charlotte Middlehurst Before new recycling rules came into effect last summer, taking out the trash used to be simple for Ni Yuan, a resident of a leafy middle-class Shanghai neighbourhood. She would sort household waste into only two categories, wet and dry, and deposit it at her convenience. On July 1, …

By Clizia Sala In Shanghai, only ten years ago nobody would have wanted to go for a cultural stroll along the Xuhui Waterfront. No travel guide book or city directory mentioned its West Bund Cultural Corridor, simply because it did not exist. Instead, art lovers would rather have headed to M50, a hip, cosy complex of former factories filled with independent art galleries on Moganshan Road. That has now changed. …

Frank Langfitt is has been NPR’s UK correspondent since his arrival in London in 2016. Previously he spent five years as NPR China correspondent based in Shanghai. During his time in Shanghai, he drove a free taxi for a series on changing China through the eyes of ordinary people. He has now released a book The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China featuring …

Author Paul French talks to Tom Pattinson about the guns, the girls and the gigs in the debauched city that was Shanghai in the ‘30s as his new crime book City of Devils is released  Dancers, actors and singers travelled to Shanghai in the 1920s and ‘30s to perform at some of the world’s most stunning dance halls and clubs. The international settlement became home to American merchants, British bullion …