Shanghai

Welcome to Shanghai, China’s most cosmopolitan city!

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As an international metropolis, Shanghai is well known for diversity, with digital technologies driving innovation and future growth. There are five CCN member universities in Shanghai. Please click the links below to find out more about the universities.
  • Fudan University
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Shanghai Normal University
  • Shanghai University
  • Shanghai University of Political Science and Law

Explore Shanghai

Fast Facts

What’s Special

Digital Innovation

Places to Visit

Cuisines to Try

CCN Students’ Sharing

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Fast Facts

Location:
Located at the estuary of the Yangtze River in eastern China and facing the Pacific Ocean, Shanghai, along with neighboring Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, forms one of China’s most robust, open and innovative regions: the Yangtze River Delta.
Population:
24.8709 million (by the end of 2020)
GDP:
3.87 trillion yuan in 2020, the 6th highest in the world
Location:
Located at the estuary of the Yangtze River in eastern China and facing the Pacific Ocean, Shanghai, along with neighboring Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, forms one of China’s most robust, open and innovative regions: the Yangtze River Delta.
Population:
24.8709 million (by the end of 2020)
GDP:
3.87 trillion yuan in 2020, the 6th highest in the world
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What’s Special

Shanghai has turned itself into an international economic, finance, trade and shipping center, and an international center for technological innovation has taken form.

Shanghai is China’s most international hub, with

  • a total of 65 overseas news agencies
  • 771 regional headquarters of multinational enterprises
  • 481 foreign-invested R&D centers

Credited as the most attractive Chinese city for foreign professionals, Shanghai not only attracted the highest number of overseas professionals, but also the highest calibre, issuing some 260,000 work permits to expatriates, 18% of whom were high-end professionals.

With the world’s largest Metro network, Shanghai is a world-renowned cultural metropolis and international travel destination, boasting 149 museums and 23 public libraries. It has a complete education system, with 63 higher-education institutions by the end of 2020.

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Digital Innovation

Shanghai has pushed forward the construction of a scientific and innovative center by initiating a “Shanghai Plan” to

  • establish a highland gathering the industries of integrated circuitry, artificial intelligence and biomedicine;
  • develop a smart city and digital economy;
  • speed up building of the platform of innovation and industrialization of scientific results;
  • invest more effort into key scientific projects;
  • improve its capacity to drive more innovation.
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Contributed to China’s 6 major scientific achievements announced in 2017.

Won 52 National Science and Technology Awards in 2020, accounting for 16.9% of the nation’s total.

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Home to a number of innovative enterprises, with 17,012 enterprises certified as high-tech companies

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Places to Visit

Lujiazui Financial Zone

Lujiazui Financial Zone

Yuyuan Garden

Yuyuan Garden

The Bund

The Bund

Xintiandi

Xintiandi

Nanjing Road

Nanjing Road

Disneyland

Disneyland

Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Astronomical Museum

Shanghai Astronomical Museum

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Cuisines to Try

Xiaolongbao

Xiaolongbao

Steamed Crab

Steamed Crab

Red-Braised Pork Belly

Red-Braised Pork Belly

Shaomai

Shaomai

Scallion Pancakes

Scallion Pancakes

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CCN Students’ Sharing

What I like the most about Shanghai is its diversity, which allows me to experience much more than I expected. Here I get to know a lot of friends from all around the world. I really enjoy my life in Shanghai.”

You can find everything in Shanghai. It’s a city of perfect mixture of history and modernity, west and east. More importantly,
it offers international students great career opportunities after graduation.”