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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.
The first time zone plan was proposed by the Central Observatory (now Beijing Ancient Observatory) of the Beiyang government in Peking in 1918. The proposal divided the country into five time zones : Kunlun ( UTC+05:30 ), Sinkiang-Tibet ( UTC+06:00 ), Kansu-Szechwan ( UTC+07:00 ), Changhua ( UTC+08:00 ) and Chinghai ( UTC+08:30 ).
It is the home of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the largest stock exchanges in the Asia-Pacific by market capitalization and the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, the first free-trade zone in mainland China. Shanghai has been classified as an Alpha+ (global first-tier) city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.
China, [h] officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), [i] is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land.
Shanghai is China's most populous urban area, [8] [9] while Chongqing is its largest city proper, the only city in China with the largest permanent population of over 30 million. [ 10 ] As of 2020, there were 113 Chinese cities with over 1 million people in urban areas.
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 ...
Xi Jinping visited Shanghai for the first time since 2020, as his government steps up efforts to prop up the country’s economy and financial markets. ... The area accounts for 47% of China’s ...
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.