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The National Time Service Center in Mount Li, Lintong, Xi'an, Shaanxi. In the 1870s, the Shanghai Xujiahui Observatory was constructed by a French Catholic missionary. In 1880s officials in Shanghai French Concession started to provide a time announcement service using the Shanghai Mean Solar Time provided by the aforementioned observatory for ships into and out of Shanghai.
Shanghai is also a domestic immigration city—40.3% (9.8 million) of the city's residents are from other regions of China. [155] Shanghai has a life expectancy of 83.18 years for the city's registered population, [188] the highest life expectancy of all cities in mainland China.
Get the Shanghai, Shanghai local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... The Geminid meteor shower this year is set to peak at almost the same time as December's full moon, which ...
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The Dàjìng Gé Pavilion wall, which is the only remaining part of the Old City of Shanghai wall The history of Shanghai spans over a thousand years and closely parallels the development of modern China. Originally a small agricultural village, Shanghai developed during the late Qing dynasty (1644–1912) as one of China's principal trading ports. Although nominally part of China, in practice ...
Shanghai was the birthplace of Chinese cinema [58] and theater. China's first short film, The Difficult Couple (1913), and the country's first fictional feature film, Orphan Rescues Grandfather (孤儿救祖记, 1923) were both produced in Shanghai. These two films were very influential, and established Shanghai as the center of Chinese film ...
Expo 2010 Shanghai China (world expo) held. Shanghai Arena opens. Minpu Bridge and Shanghai Wheelock Square built. 15 November: Fire on Jiaozhou Road, Jing'an District. Population: 23,019,148. [23] 2011 Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway begins operating. Huamin King Tower built. 2012 November: Han Zheng becomes Party Committee Secretary.