New Year, new energy. In Shanghai, dancer Dasha transforms the skyline into a stage, celebrating the season with movement, youth, and Shanghai style.

Art meets celebration in Shanghai. "When the Heavenly Steed Roams the Sky" steps from page to street, carrying New Year wishes through lantern-lit Shanghai.

"Shanghai Echoes" Video Series Launches Online Across All Platforms Tomorrow How does the concept of whole-process people's democracy translate into action, and how is it woven into the fabric of urban governance? The video series Shanghai Echoesbrings this vibrant reality to

Episode 1: Listening to the People’s Voice This episode explores how Shanghai translates everyday civic concerns into tangible urban improvements. Through innovative public feedback mechanisms, citizens' voices are reaching decision-makers to solve critical infrastructure

Episode 2: Suzhou Creek Reimagined As Shanghai revitalizes the densely populated Suzhou Creek waterfront, the city relies on grassroots consultation to balance diverse community needs. Through the "Suzhou Creek Community Forum" in Putuo District, residents of all ages gather to

Episode 3: For Our City, By All of Us Highlighting Shanghai's inclusivity as a global metropolis, this episode examines how expatriates are actively participating in local governance and legislative processes. Through innovative civic channels like the 12345 hotline and

Spring has landed in Fengxian, and the plum blossoms are making it known —soft pinks and whites spilling across Guhua Park’s classical pavilions, opening wide in the calm of Liudun Park, tucked quietly into Wangchun Garden, and bursting into vivid color right at the intersection

Lengjiang Rain Lane at Zhuanghang Old Town is lit — warm lights tracing white walls and black tiles, lanterns swaying above stone paths as the whole stretch slips into night mode. March 20 marks the grand opening, followed by Shanghai’s first MG Animation & Game Carnival on March

Welcome to Shanghai, George. You’ve met the skyline. Now meet the soul of the city. Fengxian is waiting.

There's something about plum blossoms that feels like a promise kept — and right now, Fengxian is keeping it beautifully. Nearly 40,000 trees in bloom at Haiwan National Forest Park. Soft clouds of red, white, and pink. That once-a-year fragrance already in the air.

In Zhelin Town, spring doesn't just bloom — it's eaten. Malantou Yuanzi are everything this season quietly stands for: soft glutinous rice dumplings filled with fresh wild spring greens and tofu, handmade and shared around the table at Lantern Festival time.

When spring arrives in Fengcheng Town, the markets say it first. Shepherd's purse, wild aster, Chinese toon — tender greens freshly picked from nearby fields, laid out in quiet abundance. The kind of vegetables that have marked the turn of the season here for centuries.

Spring doesn't wait in Fengxian District. While everyone's still refreshing cherry blossom forecasts, Shanghai Fish has quietly jumped ahead. Magnolias near Nine Trees Future Art Center, tulips lining Nianfeng Road, and a few early cherry blossoms that show up exactly when you

Hand-woven from dried reed flowers and straw, these shoes were the original answer to damp Jiangnan winters. Warm, dry, and made entirely by hand in Situan Town — every pair still crafted the same way today. Centuries of craft, zero updates needed.

Fish pond by morning, golf course by afternoon. Feiyun Island flipped a working waterfront into a full sports destination — floating greens on the lake, pickleball, tennis, and farm-to-table food that actually earns the name. Spring out here just hits different.

Lengjiang Yuxiang ("Cold River Rain Lane") — a restored historic lane in Zhuanghang Town, Fengxian — is having its main character moment. Shanghai's first MG Animation & Game Carnival is taking over: cosplayers weaving through stone bridges and ink-wash walls, traditional boats

4,500 years ago, the Liangzhu people fired black-bodied stoneware in this same earth — coarse sand-tempered jars for water and grain, fine clay vessels to hold the wine of ritual offerings. No pyrometers, no firing schedules. Just the color of the flame and the instinct to know

To mark Chunfen — the Spring Equinox on the Chinese calendar — the "Chunxuan Ting" elder care home in Zhelin Town, Fengxian brought residents together for a handmade Spring Pancake feast. Malantou (a wild spring green), chives, and carrots, picked fresh from the backyard garden,

In Xinqiao Village, Fengxian, seven varieties grow along the greenhouse ridges — blush pink to deep red, delicate to heady. A pale pink one tastes of lychee. A snow-white variety finishes like peach. A red so dark locals call it the "black strawberry." Slow-grown in

“Counting Stars” in Shanghai! One Voice Children’s Choir Releases New Music Video “Counting Stars” premiered worldwide on March 27, the music video features the American One Voice Children’s Choir lighting up the Shanghai skyline, the video is filled with youthful energy,