Convenience Stores in Shanghai

Most people live in Shanghai will realize that there are lots of convenience stores  there. And those convenience stores are bright, clean and well-stocked with daily necessities. Lots of Shanghai people think that modest person would ever need to shop in those convenience stores.
Those convenience stores they open 24 hours over the year. And we are very proud of having those stores around us. Because the city promise that every 500 metres you will see a convenience store. Lots of place you can see over 5 convenience stores in 20 minutes' walking distance.
However, in other Chinese cities convenience stores are very different from the one in Shanghai; however, in Beijing even there is no shortage of grocery stores and mini-markets most of them were dirty, dimly-lit and poorly organized. Sometime there even were lots of dented food. Plus most convenience store close early in the night.
The fact of success of those stores in Shanghai is not a trade secret, but the store hardware and the supply chain mechanism of these stores are familiar to many retailers. The most differentiation is one chain from another are in the areas of marketing and in-store service. How much you trade your customers how much you earn from them.
Thankful thoughts are very important in small business.

Metros in Shanghai

This is the resent Metro map of Shanghai. And the next picture is the Metro map for Shanghai in 2020.

As we all know that the development of public transportation represent the developing of the city. The more convenience the city is the more people will be willing to go there to develop it. In 2010 Shanghai hole the World EXPO, and our slogan was Better City, Better Life. I believe that is true that the city will run better if the government build it as better as they can.

There are now 11 lines of Metros in Shanghai. They reaches every conner of Shanghai. However, we are still in extending the lines till 2020 there will be 18 lines for the urban city.  

I love the Metros in Shanghai, and I hope you will love them too. 

Real Estate in Shanghai

Lots of people in Canada ask me about the real estate of Shanghai since I came here. Real estate in China is totally different from the one in Canada. 

In Shanghai, real estate is a developing industry. The price of real estate goes up every day. People in Canada could never imagine that how high the price in Shanghai now. 

In Canada when you buy a house you get both the land and the house forever. However, in China, when you buy a house you get one maximum 70 years time to use that house if you are lucky enough that you get a newly build house,yet the land belongs to the government.

Secondly, in Shanghai the real estate price is counting as per square metre. As I said the down town Shanghai is almost the same size of Toronto, and it is also separated into parts. There are 10 parts of areas, which combined the city. The central part of Shanghai real estate price of apartment goes for about RMB 40,000.00/m^2 and up, which is about $5,900.00/m^2. However, the minimum wage wage in Shanghai is RMB 1,200.00/month. Think about this, how many years can a two-people new family can buy a house for the future life? Even if they only go and buy a 30 m^2 one bedroom will be RMB 1,200,000.

Since the real estate price is that much high, there are few houses in downtown Shanghai. Most people live in high rises.  

This is the future of Shanghai. There will be no green grasses at all. High rises are everywhere in the city.

Even we can see the the price of real estate is that much high. People still do not rent apartment but trying to buy them.

Renting system in Shanghai is fairly poor. So anyone interested in building a renting system in Shanghai will be a great invest for the next 100 years.

General Information About Shanghai

Shanghai as one of the biggest city of China has over 2.5 million of auto mobilities resisted in the city. There are 1.01 million of cars are personal auto, which mean every five families owns a car. However, there are still a lot of people resisted their car in some other cities and used in Shanghai. 

Do you know how crowd will Shanghai be with this big amount of cars?

First of all, let's have a look some pictures.

 These pictures are in downtown Shanghai last Friday afternoon. This was not even in rush hours. 

A city with 7,037.50 square kilometers in total, which also includes 697 square kilometers water area. The real urban size of Shanghai is only 2,648.6 square kilometers.

Here is some other information that I got. Toronto is 632 square kilometers but with only 4.3 million of people. The great Toronto is about 1600 square kilometers with 3.89 million of people.  

We can see that the size of these two cities are similar. However, there are 19.91 million of people live in Shanghai with a citizenship of Shanghai, which is almost six times of Toronto's population.

According to this numbers, you will see how many opportunities this City should offer to its citizens.

Lots of people ask me about houses in Shanghai so I will find out some information about houses in Shanghai next time.

Better Date a Shanghai Boy Before You Get Married

He is a Real Shanghai Man

You always meet different kind of man of the world.

 Who do you think is the best one?

Here is a kind of man you have to date before you get married!

A man who holds your hand whenever you guys walk together;

A man who always walks in the outside of the side-walk;

A man who cooks for you when you go home after work;

A man who does your laundrying when he sees you are tired;

A man who does the dishes for you when you need a relax after work;

A man who does the grocery shopping for you;

A man who always respect you;

A man who never argues with you but communicate with you anytime he feels bad about you;

 A man who is willing to spend all his money on you but being mean to other people;

These are the things that a real Shanghai man does for his wife for his whole life.

You might feel not as good as I did, but compare to other men from China they are the perfect husband for a girl.

You know some men they trade you as their slave after marriage;

They order you do all the house works;

They order you obey all what they said;

They never let you go outside because they think that you will use their money;

They never allow you talk in a high voice at home;

They always stand on the top of your head control you doing everything;

They usually hit you twice a week.

So be careful when you start dating someone.

Best wishes to all the girls.

In Shanghai With Parents

When I live in Canada by myself I am good at cooking;
When I live in Canada by myself I know I will do my own dishes;
When I live in Canada by myself I wash my own cloth;
When I live in Canada by myself I wake up early in the morning;
When I live in Canada by myself I contact my friends for all holidays and festivals;
When I live in Canada by myself I talk to people in a appropriate way;
When I live in Canada by myself I am an independent person.
Life is totally different in Shanghai because in that city I have my parents that I can rely on.
With my mum I become childish,
I loose the ability to make decision;
I loose the ability to communicate with others;
I loose my voice when I need to talk to others;
I loose my patient when I discuss with people;
I loose my ability of doing dishes;
I loose my ability of cooking;
I loose my ability of washing cloth;
I loose my good habit of  waking up early;
I have someone to let me depend on when I go home. I am the princess at home.

My Three Days & Two Nights in Shanghai

I went back Shanghai for Christmas. It was a great trip for me. I spent most of my vacation with my parents; however, I still got time to hang out with my friends back home.
I can't believe I had met 37 people in three days. I didn't manage it but just did it. I told all of my friends that I would go back to Shanghai for Christmas. And I told them that I had only three weeks to stay in the city.
I posted a message before I had left Canada: If any of you want to meet me in Shanghai, feel free to text me at 139*********3. You guys don't need to figure out a big amount of time for me. I can meet you out of your office with a nice coffee for you.
Here is what happened at the day I arrived China. I turned my phone on. It kept vibrating for at least 10 minutes.  I was super shocked because I thought my phone was broken. However, that was my friends. Most of my friends texted me before I arriving China.
I started greeting them at the first night I was in Beijing. We started planing a schedule for me to meet everyone. I was extramly longing to see everyone since I haven't met them for two and half years.
Finally, on 21st December I arrived in Shanghai. And this is the first time I slept on my own bed. How warm it is！Also in that night my friends and me got the first schedule of meeting each other.

It was just a plan. A plan never catches up the changes. I left Shanghai the other morning because of the engine issue of my father's ship in Lianyungang, which is 7 hours' drive. When I came back Shanghai was already Christmas eve. I went for dinner with my best friend in high school that night. We had a long conversation during the dinner. After that I met 6 of my psychology club members in the other building for a movie called "If You Are the One II". The movie finished at 9:15 p.m.  During the movie we can't talk to each other so we went to KTV after that. And the group became bigger since most of the couples had finished their romantic dinners. It was dramatic that my  elementary school classmate becomes my high school deskmate's boyfriend. The distance of my elementary school to my high school is just like Winnipeg to Branden. The end of the Christmas eve I have met 14 of my old friend.  When we were leaving the KTV, a coincidence just happened again; I met my ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend there.

Meeting my ex-boyfriend there became the most existing thing for me during that day. We all had never thought we would met each other in the world some day. I gave my best wishes to them. And we stopped the cold war between us, which was one of the most meaningful things in my life.

Then in Christmas Day I had met a group of my high school friends in a boat for lunch. That time I met 8 of my close friends, and that was a wonderful dinner.

Culture Class Chinese New Year 101

Chinese New Year is Febuary 3rd. People may ask how we figure out the date.

Here it is. We have our own calendar named lunar calendar as well as Chinese triditional calendar.

When is Chinese new year in lunar calendar? Chinese New Year is Lunar January 1st.

Who celebrate Chinese New Year? Of course all Chinese people will celebrate their new year; however, we should call it Asian New Year instead of Chinese New Year. Here is the reason people from Korea, Tibet, Bhutan, Mongolia, Vietna, and Japan they all share the same triditional new years day with Chinese.

Chinese New Year is the biggest festival of the year in China. We give this festival a name as Spring Festival, which clearly shows that after the festival Spring will be coming soon.

Traditionally, Spring festival lasts 16 days. It begins with the New Year Eve, which we call it Chu Xi. At that day all family members will get together to eat a big new year meal. You can never imaging how much effort Chinese people put on this festival. Every year before and after new year you will see three most crowd places: airport, railway station, and greyhund station. We transfered about 5 billion people dring Spring Festival. That's what happens every festival season. Go home dring the festival is the biggest goal for a Chinese in that day.

What will people do except having a big meal with family in China?
At that time people will wat a triditional TV Show named Spring Festival gala evening. It is provide by CCTV ( China Central Televation), which is a free channel and everyone can recieve the channel in China.
When it hits 12:00 a.m. people will go outside of their rooms to celebrate the early new year with fireworks.
Then the next coming morning everyone in the family should wake up early to give new year greedings to each other. Children will recieve lucky pocket from parents and other elders. The lucky pocket is an red envolop. It prays for health and safe in the new year. An early breakfast means hard work for the coming new year.
From the second day of new year people start visting friends and other relatives.
The new year festival ends at the 15th day of the new year. In that day the family will have a family dinner and those young people need to go back to work after that. So it is also a day for people to say good-bye to each other.

Wedding Invitation for My Dear Friend

This is a special wedding social invitation. I am not doing
an invitation for myself, but for my first boyfriend.

We become best friends since we started dating each other. Even
we are not couples any more. We will still take care of each other a lot also
we share everything in our life.

This time I am really happy that he is going to be married
in beginning of 2012. The wedding project is my best wishes for that lovely
couple.

Here is the information about the wedding:

·        Time: 12:00p.m. April 1^st, 2012

·        Place: Century Park, Pudong, Shanghai, China

Ticket: Free. E-mail me seven days before the social to let
me know that you will show up for their wedding.

Actually, this social is just for all friends of the couple
and me. And the goal for us will be share our best wishes to that couple.

What will be included in the social?

1.      20 long lounge table covered by white laces
table cloth;

2.      White rose-baskets around the table circle;

3.      A platform with a door covered by white lilies;

4.      Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra for music;

5.      Compeer: Cheng Lei (Famous VJ of OTV);

6.      Big screen sited behind the platform showing
their stories;

7.      Fruits buffet during the wedding social;

8.      Cake cutting show;

9.      Champagne performance;

10.  Dancing party;

11.  Give your best wishes to the new couple.

Lastly, please dress up for the wedding social. It will be
the best thing to see you guys show up for the wedding even it is not for mine.

Additional information:

Contact Ming at +8613918000663 to get accommodation and airport pick up

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Aternoon Tea in Pudong Shanghai

     This is my last week in Shanghai. However, I feel that I am not ready to leave yet. This city gives me too many things to remember, and to many places and friends to visit.
     If you haven't been to Shanghai before, you will never have the chance to get a real image of that city. It combines old and morden, western and easten culture, and classic and luxuary.
    Comfortablely, I am sitting beside the Huangpu river of Pudong side facing the Bound, which is the classic Shanghai with my friends and our super nice afternoon tea.
    By seeing the old Shanghai makes me thinking about lots of things happened in my childhood. My friends and me are keeping talking about our childhood now, while I am wrting this blog. The reason I want to write it now is I feel it is a good time to tell my friends in Canada how much exited I am right now.
     Sitting beside river you will feel the wind blows to your face, how warm it is. Compared to Canada, we have been already in Spring right now. The tempreture here is pluse 9 degree C in Shanghai to day, while Winnipeg is -32.
      Look accross the other side of the river, your mind will clearly opened to the early 30's. According to the history, that was a war century; however, in that time Shanghai was called "little Paris" of Asia. Those gentlemen and ladies were all dressed up to attend all kinds of the parties in downtown Shanghai. It seemed no war at all. Music, lights, alcohol, and cigars were the most popular things in those paries.
       The architectrues of that century are still well protected and they are now the histry of Shanghai. They still make this city looks mysterious because of the style of Roman European.
      Time passes fast. When you sit here, and have a look around, you will see a totally different world. The Pudong side of Shanghai, is a super mordern place of the world. It is hard for people to imagine that this area is only 20 years old. In 20 years we build the Pudong like my profile picture. How amazing that is! I have no idea about how you guys feel about that centre place. In my eye, it is even better than New York City, Chicago, even Las Vegas. Of course, Hong Kong becomes out of date now.
      Time passes fast, I have to stop writing this article because we need to go to the next stop of our trip in Shanghai.
       This place named Qing Tea Bar. Just beside Starbucks of Lujiazui. You have to make reservation to come to this place because the view here worthes everyone to have a look.
        Thanks for visiting. Here is my Shanghai contact number.
        +8613918000663
        Call me when you need to visit Shanghai or places near Shanghai. I will be back to Shanghai October 2011.

   

Shopping in Shanghai

To all tourists Shanghai is a world famous shopping centre. We gave it a name of "Urban Business City". Our most famous street is Nanjing Road east. It also named China's Best Street. However, as a Shanghainese I barely go to Nanjing Road east. We thought only farm people shopping there although the lights there are very luxury. It is a good place for tourists because of the view.

Than you probably will ask where you should go. Here are the solutions:

If you want something fashion and brandy you need to go to Huai Hai Road. In there you will see mostly: Guess, La Senza, Esprit, Lee, Live's, Nike, Adidas, etc. This place is not very expensive, but with lots of famous designers.  Also Huai Hai Road also has some high fashion stores such as Parda, HUGE Boss, Dior, Channel, etc.
However, if you only want high fashion brand you may go to Nanjing Road West.

Where will teenage go shopping in Shanghai? Of course Qi Pu Road. Cloth there are super cheap. If you are lucky enough you may buy a full 28" suit case of cloth with $100.00 Canadian.

Old Shanghai

We walked around the new urban city of Shanghai last week. Now let’s see how the old towns look
like. Shanghai as an oriental Paris since early 1920s, but even it is an alluvial city it still has a long history.  

During Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty the centre of Shanghai is not the place has the
landmarks of Shanghai now. It was in Songjiang, which is the countryside of the
city. In old time Songjiang Shanghai was just like Winnipeg Manitoba, which is
the centre of the province. However, nowadays we should say Shanghai’s centre
is Lu Jia Zui.

Lots of people say Shanghai is only an upstart. There are no stories and histories behind this
city; unlikely, Beijing is a famous historic and cultural city. Today, let’s go and have a look at the historical look Shanghai.

In Ming and Qing Dynasty, Shanghai was a water city. People lived here were mostly fishing
men. Also the city was built up water.

When we talk about water city we will always think about Venice where is famous for its
architectures, but look at these- China’s Venice. We have our own style, and we
also can build our buildings upon the water.

Of course, when Shanghai people talk about these old towns we will always think about those famouse food in those towns. Most of towns have some delious food there. I have some pictures of those food. I don't know how to discribe them. But I think give your guys some imiges will be better than I tell you some Chinese name  to make you confused about what is that stuff.

How Fast Shanghai Develops

If you live in Shanghai you have to accept one thing—developing. Most people know that when you diet; you maybe can’t find any difference during the time, but sometimes your friend who haven’t seem you for a long time will say: Oh amazing, how much weight you have loosen in this two month. You can’t see any differences because you have been getting used to it, and also it only changes a little bit. However, live in Shanghai you will see Shanghai is changing everyday. I am not telling a joke, but you may can’t find your house if you leave Shanghai for one year.

Here I am going to show you some pictures to prove what I told you.

This is the same angle of the same place; however, the up picture was taken 30 years ago. The second picture was taken in 2009. When you see this you have to say that China develops so fast that you can’t even imaging. And you have to go and see the real Shanghai by your own eye. There was nothing in the other side of the river 30 years ago. Nowadays, it has China’s tallest building there. And also that is the biggest Chinese economic centre. From the picture you can see the tree landmarks of Shanghai: the Oriental Pear Tower, Jinmao Tower, and the World Financial Centre. They represent the different developing time slop of Shanghai. In 1994, we built the Oriental Pear TV Tower to tell the world we are starting recovering. China will wake up shortly to stand on the top of the world. In 1998, Jinmao tower appeared to our eye. It has 88 floors. Ten years later, the World Financial Centre comes to our life, which was built with 101 floors high. Pudong, many people say that is a place changed mostly in Shanghai. That is true. Therefore, let’s see how much in old urban centre changed in these 15 years. Here is the Nanjing Road when I was young. It was around 1994.

And this is in the beginning of 2008.  Same place different time. You will see a totally different Shanghai.

I had some other pictures of old Shanghai and new Shanghai. They might not in the same angle but I still want to show you how much it changed in this 20 years.

Remember, this place named Shanghai. this is not in New York City, or Chicago. This city has more than 3000 skyscrapers. This number is doubled the number of New York City.

This is a city that you have too visit in your life.

Remember This Date 11.15

I am very sorry everyone. I was supposed to show you around Shanghai for the second day this week. However, there was something urgent happened in my hometown for the past week. Let’s pray for that poor city, pray for those people have already gone to the heaven during that fire accident on November 15^th.

I am not here to criticize our present Secretary-Yu but since he came to Shanghai no one likes him. We can’t vote to get our Secretary but waiting for our Chairman to order one for the city. No matter we like the Secretary or not we have to accept the order from the top leader of China.

As everyone knows, Shanghai has just finished the 2010 World EXPO, and our slogan is: Better city, better life. Yes, that was our old Secretary’s idea. People love our ex-Secretary because he did a lot of things for the people who live in Shanghai. He also made Shanghai people’s life away better than any other cities’ but Chairman Hu doesn’t like him because he belongs to the Party of our ex-Chairman Jiang. In another hand, as China is a community country we have to share our GDP to other cities. However, Secretary Chan wanted to keep them for Shanghai people. When he was on his position we got better city construction because he would use a large amount of money to build Shanghai, but donate the money to Party Centre Committee.

Look, here is our new Secretary Yu did. He allowed a construction under table. This big construction did have a permission form from the fire station but no one understood how they got it because what they did was absolutely unsafe. They use polyurethane foam to make the building become energy efficient building; however, that building was 28 floors high they have to use scaffolds to close all building in with a lot of moso bamboos and nylon net. As we can see, those three things are all inflammable, especially, the polyurethane foam. It took 5 hours to put down the fire for that building, which was unbelievable. People said that the first fire truck had arrived the place after 18 minutes they phoned the police office, which normally takes 6 minutes for them to arrive a fired place.

You also can’t believe that those government people asked those victims stay at a school gym and only give them some yoga carpet to sleep on. However, if it happened with Secretary Chan he would provide those victims at least a motel room to stay at once. Even those Secretary Yu did provide them a motel room but that was his secondary choice.

There are 58 people were dead in this accident, 22 of them were males, and 36 were females. There are also another 71 people are still in the hospital. And there were also 56 people missing during this accident. I have a big question mark for this “missing”. Where did they go? They went to the Mars?

I remembered when I was in school we have safety studies. But that was just an oral class about all kinds of accident. When they talk about fires they only tell us: “When you say fires don’t go into the fire because it is dangers; just run away, and then call the police.” However, they had never taught us where to go, and how to escape. In this big accident, lots of people went to the roof to wait for help. Therefore, no one noticed that smoke goes up. When helicopters came the smoke was already too heavy they couldn’t do anything. And those people who were on the roof were missing after the put down the fire. They might go downstairs but no one knows. They might also go to the other world with UFO. Unfortunately, there were still a family who lived on second floor were dead in this accident. Why? The reason was they had never tried to escape from the house; they were waiting for people to save them.

There were too many things unbelievable during this accident. The only thing I can do is to pray for them. And I hope everyone who read this article can pray for them too.

May the victims rest in peace, and the survivors be strong.

For the Victims in ShangHai 11.15

love shanghai's reason

Welcome to Shanghai

Welcome to Shanghai: Travel in Shanghai—Day One

 

Welcome to Shanghai.  This is my new blog to introduce my hometown Shanghai to everyone.

After a long day of flying you will arrive in Pu Dong International Airport. It is one of the biggest airports in China. Make a deep breath because it is a brand new place you will spend at least 5 days here.

Day one, you will be introduce to the landmark place of Shanghai—Lu Jia Zui.

It will take 40 mins drive to go to Lu Jia Zui from the airport. However, if there is traffic then you might be lucky to there in one hour. Luckily, I guarantee you to arrive Lu Jia Zui in 30 minutes with public transportation. The airport maglev is the fastest way to let you go to downtown. There will be a maximum waiting time of 15 minutes. And the travel time will be 8 minutes. Then take a metro for 2 or 3 stops you will arrive Lu Jia Zui.

Lu Jia Zui is now the most attractive place in Shanghai since the reform and open policy of China. It was a place with lots of weeds 30 years ago. However, now, few people could believe the scene in the front of you is in China. The landmarks here are Shanghai Oriental Pear Tower, Jin Mao Tower, and the World Financial Centre. From 1994 to 2009 Shanghai’s new hight is replaced again and again. Now the World Financial Centre is the highest building in Shanghai. It has 101 floors. However, the new hight will replace it soon. The new Shanghai centre will appear to the world in 2014. That will be 691 metres tall.

Lu Jia Zui is Shanghai’s new heart. It contains most of the world famous companies.  It is the new economic centre of Shanghai. Come and find your own office here. Or you can also visit here with your passion.

 

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