Location: Located in the eastern edge of the Yangtze Delta and faced to Pacific, Shanghai is in the mid-point of China's coastal line and has a perfect natural port and thus an easy transportation system.

Area: 6,340.5 square kilometers

Population: About 13 million

Environment: Environment protection and construction is one of the important parts of the Shanghai's sustainable economic development strategy. After the treatment of the pollution of the Suzhou creek and application of lead free gasoline, the water and air quality has been improved a great deal. The city's green space coverage will reach 20.2% by 2000.

Human Resource: The total number of Shanghai professional technicians reached 1.41 million and nearly 0.2 million of them are engaged in scientific and technical activities. Shanghai now possesses 39 full-time colleges and universities and over 40 subjects are at the world leading levels.

Economic Development
Industry: Shanghai now has nearly 40,000 industrial enterprises, with about 4 million employees and over 400 industrial sectors. Shanghai's industry has many advantages, such as the complete and diversified industrial sectors, easiness to find cooperative partners, supporting products and material and convenience to reach domestic and overseas markets. Shanghai will expedite the development of 3 major high technology industries, i.e. integrated circuit and computer science, modern biology and new medicine as well as new materials in the future.

Agriculture: Shanghai's rural economy has completed its transition from small agriculture economy to suburban agricultural economy, which is more diversified, integrated and industrialized. The agriculture output of 1997 is about 20 billion RMB Yuan.

Foreign Trade and Finance: Shanghai has always been a foreign trade port of the largest scale nationwide. Shanghai's financial market is enjoying a rapid growth. A national financial market system has almost come into being, which takes the monetary market, capital market and foreign exchange market as its main components.

Infrastructure: Two international airports, Shanghai Railway, one of the ten railway hubs in China, Shanghai Port, the biggest port in mainland, and water freight form the convenient transportation system. The inner city transportation comes into a 3 dimensional system consisting of express main roads, elevated highway, tracks and cross-river roads. Shanghai post and telecommunications currently has formed a multidimensional communication network with the involvement of various means such as satellite, microwave and submarine cable.