Shanghai
Welcome to Shanghai, China’s most cosmopolitan city!
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Home to a number of innovative enterprises, with 17,012 enterprises certified as high-tech companies
Places to Visit
Cuisines to Try
CCN Students’ Sharing
