Jiading, Shanghai

Jiading, Shanghai
Jiading, Shanghai
Simplified Chinese	嘉定区
Traditional Chinese	嘉定區
Postal	Kahding
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Jiādìng Qū
Wu
Shanghainese; Romanization	Ka-din Chiu

Jiading

嘉定区
Jiading 嘉定区
District
	Shanghai International Circuit
	Jiading in Shanghai
Country	People's Republic of China
Municipality	Shanghai
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Jiading is a suburban district of Shanghai. It had a population of 1,471,100 in 2010.

Geography

Jiading District is located in the northwestern part of Shanghai. It stretches across 463.9 square kilometers (179.1 sq mi). It is located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) from downtown Shanghai. It is connected to downtown by the Hujia Expressway, which was the first expressway in Shanghai. It is near Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport but across town from the Pudong International Airport.

Administration

Jiading administers several towns including Jiading, Anting, Nanxiang, Huating, Xuhang, Waigang, Huangdu, Malu Town and Jiangqiao.

Subdistricts and towns

Name	Chinese (S)	Hanyu Pinyin	Shanghainese Romanization	Population (2010)^[1]	Area (km²)
Xincheng Road Subdistrict	新成路街道	Xīnchénglù Jiēdào	sin zen lu ka do	55,223	5.14
Zhenxin Subdistrict	真新街道	Zhēnxīn Jiēdào	tzen sin ka do	106,164	5.09
Jiadingzhen Subdistrict	嘉定镇街道	Jiādìngzhèn Jiēdào	ka din tzen ka do	81,854	4.10
Nanxiang town	南翔镇	Nánxiáng Zhèn	neu zian tzen	139,845	33.31
Anting town	安亭镇	Āntíng Zhèn	eu din tzen	232,503	89.29
Malu town	马陆镇	Mǎlù Zhèn	mau loq tzen	172,864	57.16
Xuhang town	徐行镇	Xúháng Zhèn	zi raon tzen	165,452	39.91
Huating town	华亭镇	Huátíng Zhèn	rau din tzen	46,355	39.57
Waigang town	外冈镇	Wàigāng Zhèn	nga kaon tzen	80,896	50.95
Jiangqqiao town	江桥镇	jiāng qiáo Zhèn	kaon djio tzen	256,218	42.37
Jiading Industrial Zone	嘉定工业区	Jiādìng Gōngyèqū	ka din kon gniq chiu	72,933	78.10
Juyuan New Area Administrative Committee	菊园新区管委会	Yúyuán Xīnqū Guǎn Wěihuì	cioq yeu sin chiu kueu we	60,924	18.61

Landmarks

Shanghai University has a campus in downtown Jiading, which is where SILC is based.

The Shanghai International Circuit is located in Jiading. Each year in April the Shanghai International Circuit holds the Chinese Grand Prix.

The Jiading Confucian Temple is one of the best conserved county-level Confucian temples in China. It has gone through several repairs in the past 800 years.

The Fahua Pagoda located in central Jiading is a tetrahedral brick-wooden pagoda with seven floors and a height of 40.85 meters (134.0 ft).

The Bamboo Carving Museum, covering bamboo carving over the past 400 years since the mid-Ming Dynasty.

Accommodation

There are numerous international hotels within the Jiading district. The most famous hotel is the Crowne Plaza Shanghai Anting. It is the first 5* International hotel in Jiading & Anting area.

Notable people

Yang Yongliang (b. 1980), artist
James S.C. Chao (b. ~1935), merchant mariner, business leader, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Foremost Group

Transportation

Metro

Jiading is currently served by two metro lines operated by Shanghai Metro:

References

^ shi, Guo wu yuan ren kou pu cha ban gong; council, Guo jia tong ji ju ren kou he jiu ye tong ji si bian = Tabulation on the 2010 population census of the people's republic of China by township / compiled by Population census office under the state; population, Department of; statistics, employment statistics national bureau of (2012). Zhongguo 2010 nian ren kou pu cha fen xiang, zhen, jie dao zi liao (Di 1 ban. ed.). Beijing Shi: Zhongguo tong ji chu ban she. ISBN 978-7-5037-6660-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

External links

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[1] shi, Guo wu yuan ren kou pu cha ban gong; council, Guo jia tong ji ju ren kou he jiu ye tong ji si bian = Tabulation on the 2010 population census of the people's republic of China by township / compiled by Population census office under the state; population, Department of; statistics, employment statistics national bureau of (2012). Zhongguo 2010 nian ren kou pu cha fen xiang, zhen, jie dao zi liao (Di 1 ban. ed.). Beijing Shi: Zhongguo tong ji chu ban she. ISBN 978-7-5037-6660-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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