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Edition HistoryEdit Introduction

Shanghai is located in the southeast China, boarded by the East China Sea to the east, Jiangsu province to the northwest, and Zhejiang province to the southwest. It covers the south portion of the Yangtze Delta.

As the most metropolitan city in China, Shanghai is very accessible. Shanghai can be reachable by air, by land and by water.

Edition HistoryEdit Air

Shanghai is the only city in China which has two interdomestic airports. There are a great number of flights departing for or from Shanghai, of which the Pu Dong Air Port takes up 60% and the Rainbow Bridge Air Port 40%. There is no exact division of labor between the two airports except that the Pu Dong Airport caters to the interdomestic flights. The two airports are connected by the "Guest Road" (A1Road) and the beltway (A20 Road) of Shanghai both of which take us 45 minutes by car. There are many ways to Pu Dong Airport from the city as follows:

1. Take No 2 subway to the Long Yang station and then take No 3 Airport Line to the airport within 40 minutes.

2. Drive to the airport directly along inner-ring road, Luo Hill Road, the Beltway Road (A20Road), and the “Guest Road” (A1 Road).

3. Get to the Long Yang Road first and then take a taxi to the airport which costs you about 80 Yuan.

If you want to go to the Rainbow Bridge Airport, besides the seven special lines to the airports, you can drive along the Yan’an Skyway and to the end of it. Or you can take a taxi from the People’s Square which will take you 40Yuan.

Another important transportation to Pu Dong Airport is the magnetic suspension train. The details are as follows:

Operating time: 7:00am-21:00pm with intervals of 15 minutes

Address:  Long Yang Station. No 2100 Long Yang Road (near the Bai Yang Road, No3 and No4 exit of the Long Yang Station along No2 subway, the fifth line of the Nan Pu Bridge, The sixth line of the Nan Pu Bridge, the Shenjiang Line.)

The maglev airport stop: the east side of the waiting room of the Shanghai PuDong interdomestic airport (connected directly with 300-metered corridor)

The ticket: ordinary ticket: 50RMB for one-way ticket, 80RMB for return ticket

VIP ticket: 100 RMB for one-way ticket, 160RMB for return ticket

Pu Dong International Airport

With an area of 40 square kilometers, PuDong interdomestic airport is in the eastern part of Shanghai, 30km from the center of the city and 40km from the Rainbow Bridge Airport. After the finish of the First-step reform project, the PuDong Airport will be of the capacity of 300,000 aircraft handling and treat 36,500,000 passengers which can satisfy the need before the second waiting room was put into use in 2008.

At present, the PuDong Airport has the flight of 560 per day which accounts for about 60% of the whole Shanghai Airport. There are 48 airliners home and abroad establishing connection with PuDong Airport and the flying lines cover 73 interdomestic cities and areas and 62 cities in China. There are flights directly to L.S, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Ankh, Rich, Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo, Bangkok, Brussels, Frankfurt, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Kasha, Rome and other big cities. Besides, there are also district ional flights from Shanghai to Hong Kong and Macaw. 

Service Guide

Consulting desk of the waiting building

No3 and No 4 exit of the Domestic departure flights.

No 12 exit of the interdomestic departure flight.

The comprehensive consultant desk:

On the opposite of the domestic safety check station; on the opposite of the interdomestic safety check station.

Handling counters for missing the plane:  No22 desk, the Eastern Air Company

Consulting phone for the flights: 021-62683659   021-62688918

Edition HistoryEdit Train

The Hu Ning (between shanghai and Ningbo) and the Hu Hang (between shanghai and Hangzhou) railways lead shanghai to the other places of China. There are shanghai station (locally called the new station), the west station in shanghai (the former Zhen Ru station) and shanghai south station(the former new Long Hua station) among which shanghai station to be the main station with 70 couples of trains coming from and going to the big and middle cities in China. In the west station, there are departure trains to Yan Tai and Zao Zhuang (in Shan Dong province), Gan Zhou (in Jiang Xi province), Cheng Du (in Si Chuan) and 8 couples of passing trains as well as the rail line from shanghai to Zhang Jia Jie (a tourism place in Hu Nan province) directly. At the south station, there are 11 couples of arriving trains and departure trains between shanghai and Hangzhou, JiaShan and the Gold Mountain.

Shanghai station

The layout of the main hall of the shanghai station is "two doors in south and north, elevated railway". The station is modern with a set of advanced guiding system for travelers, together with 16 air-conditioned rooms and 7 auto staircase. There are north square and south square around the station with "the first south exit", "the second south exit" and "the north exit" as well as a passage to the subway. The bus stations near the square are available.

Address: No.303 Mo Ling Road

Kind reminder: travelers can get to the shanghai station by taking bus No. 13, 41, 63, 95, 104, 106, 109, 114, 115, 17, 902, 903, 904, 906, 502, 506, 507, 508, 598, 3 tunnels, No.302, 305, 306, 308, 310, 315, 322, 324, 328, 329 subway at night. Besides, there is also a green passage for short distance travelers to buy tickets and take the train which is in service for24 hours with special waiting room and entrance to the platform and also special people who lead you to the train 10 minutes ahead of time.

MeiLong station in shanghai

The MeiLong Station is a bus-liked station in shanghai with four scheduled trains to Hang Zhou. The travelers are allowed to buy ticket after getting on the train and reach the east station in Hang Zhou in one hour. In convenience of the travelers, the MeiLong Station is connected directly with No1 subway.

Address: Mei Long, Shanghai

Kind reminder: the travelers should first go to JinJiang Merryland station by No.1 subway.

The West Station

some trains from shanghai to BaoTou (in Nei Meng Gu province), Qi Qi Haer (in Ha er Bin province), Yan Tai (in Shandong province), ChangChun (in Ji lin province), HengYang (in Hunan province) and some trains to GuangZhou (in Guangdong province), Ningbo (in Zhejiang province) and the west station of Nanjing (in Jiangsu province) will depart from here.

Address: No1 Tao Pu Road.

Kind reminder: travelers can reach there by bus No.106, 129.

Edition HistoryEdit Bus

The Highway

The main highways in shanghai are as follows:

(1)The three national roads line 312(from shanghai to Yi Ning, Xin Jiang), line 318(from shanghai to ZhangMu, Tibet) and line 320 (from shanghai to RuiLi, Yunnan) lead to the western part of China.

(2) The national road 204(Tongjiang, Hei Longjiang—San Ya, Hai Nan) which passing shanghai goes through most of the beautiful cities along the coastline of eastern China.

(3) The Hu ning (A11 Road), Hu Hang (A8 Road), Hu jialiu (a12 Road), Hu qingping (A9 Road) connected the main cities around shanghai.

Kind reminder:  So many long distance bus stations in shanghai help a lot for those who go to Jiangsu, Zhejiang areas and the bus tickets are available ahead of time within three days.

The address of the main long distance bus station:

 No.1662 Zhong xing Road. (The north square of shanghai station)

 Tele: 021-66051111  021-66050000

Edition HistoryEdit Boat

Waterway

General Situation

Located in the center of the north and south coast line of China, shanghai is the biggest port city in China and the third largest port in the world. The steamers there are connected with more than 400 ports in the world. Because of the speed, the steamer business is not quite brilliant with only some of them running like the steamer to Dalian, Shen yang at the interval of 4 days from the Fair Road dock while the other long distance shipping along the coastline have been stopped. There are scheduled steamers to near places like Nan Tong, Ding Hai and Pu Tuo at sixteenth Pu wharf. If you want to go to Zhou Shan islands, you should first take a bus at sixteenth Pu and to Lu Chao port or Gold Mountain port to board a steamer. Travelers going to Chang Xing Island and HengSha Island should board the steamer at WuSong dock. Make the boarding place clear before going to Chong Ming Island. Besides, travelers who want to Inchon and Pusan in Korea or Osaka and Kobe in Japan would board the interdomestic steamer at the Out Rainbow wharf.

Edition HistoryEdit Local Transport

The public traffic

1 The bus

There are more than 1,000 bus lines in shanghai city and about 50 bus lines are being opened, adjusted or lengthened every year.

Grouped by time, there are daytime buses, the rush hour buses in the morning and afternoon headed with 2 of the license number and the night buses headed with3.

Classified by area, there are western Pu River area, eastern Pu River area, around the Pu River (bridge and tunnel), and the suburban area.

Grouped by ticket, there are no-conductor buses with one Yuan ticket (within 13 km) or 1.5Yuan ticket (more than 13 km), air-conditioned buses with 2Yuan ticket and special lined buses with multiple tickets.

The main transit centers in the city are Shanghai station, people’s square, Xu Jiahui area, Zhong Shan Park and the five-pointed square.

Kind reminder:

1. People can design the bus lines with computers.

    Details are in Shanghai traffic: www.jt.sh.ch  and City traffic: www.chinaquest.com

2. The bus ticket in Shanghai:

   ① No-conductor buses.

There are 1Yuan and 1.5Yuan tickets. The buses with double digit and three digit numbers which begins with 1 or 2 or 7 are mostly go without conductor. Passengers should prepare the changes. People can also buy commutation tickets. The ticket can not return if it is sold.

   ② diversified-ticket buses:

The special-lined buses with the first number of 5; special-lined buses to the new arrears of Pu Dong; the minibus lines with the first number of 8; the double-layered buses or air-conditioned buses with the first number of 9; many other air-conditioned tourism buses; the sightseeing buses.

2 Taxi

(1) General situation

There are about 50.000 taxies in Shanghai most of  which are Santana. The largest taxi companies in shanghai are Volks Wagen (lake blue), Qiang Sheng(yellow), Johnson(white), Bus(green)and Hai Bo(blue).

(2) The charge is shown in the following table

Kind reminder:

1. Travelers can bargain down the price during the night and can share a taxi together for several people.

2. If there is a waiting time, the driver will charge you as one meter’s cost for each five minutes.

(3) The taxi booking and complaining telephone number.

3 Magnetic suspension train

The demonstration line of the maglev train is the important project of the shanghai traffic development during the tenth five-year development period of the nation and is also the first maglev train used in business in the world with the function of transporting, displaying, tourism and sightseeing. The magnetic suspension train is from Long Yang Stop of the No.2 subway in the west to Pu Dong International Airport in the east which eased the heavy traffic between the city and PuDong Airport. The whole line was 30km long, including the upper departing line and the lower arriving line with the speed of 430km/h. it will cost us 8 minutes for a single line. Since March, 29th, 2004, the magnetic suspension train has adjusted the running time. In former time, the train works half a day during work time and a whole day at weekend. Nowadays, it opens from 8:30am to 5:30 pm everyday at the interval of 20 minutes with 54 schedules in total.

In order to embody the advantage of the magnetic suspension train, the department has taken some measures like the passengers are entitled to a 80% discount of the single train ticket by showing the air ticket of that day that is 40 Yuan for an ordinary ticket and 80Yuan for the VIP ticket. Meanwhile, accompanied by adults, children who are less than 1.2 meters are free. The ticket is valid that day and other times invalid. Travelers should get the tickets examined 20 minutes ahead of the time printed on the ticket s the examination would stop 5minutes before the maglev train starting.

Kind reminder:  

Address: the magnetic suspension station, Long Yang Road.