Jiading covers a 464-square-kilometer area to the
northwest of Shanghai, adjoining Shanghai's Baoshan and Potuo districts on the
east, the city of Kunshan, Jiangsu on the west, Shanghai's Minhang, Changning
and Qingpu districts on the south, and Taicang, JiangsuI on the
north. The Liuhe River borders it to the north and Wusong River to the south.
It has flat terrain that is slightly higher in the northeastern part.
The Jiading, Wenzaobang, Lianqi and Loutang rivers,
which flow into the Yangtze and Huangpu rivers, run west to east across the
Baoshan district, while the Yantietang, Hengli, and Xinchapu rivers run south
to north of Jiading into the Wusong and Liuhe. The total length of Jiading's
rivers more than 1,800 km and it has a water surface ratio of 7.71 percent.
Jiading is the site of Shanghai International
Automobile City and has convenient transportation, with the district government
30 km from downtown Shanghai, 75 km from Pudong International Airport, and
about 25 km from Hongqiao Airport,
the Shanghai Railway Station, and the Zhanghuabang International Container
Dock. Passing through the district are the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway,
Shanghai-Hangzhou Outer Ring Railway, and Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway.
Shanghai Metro's Line 11, which also passes through
Jiading, is open and work on Line 13 (the Jiading section) has begun. It has
more than 1,000 km of highways, with the G15 (Shehai Expressway), G2 (Jinghu
Expressway) and S5 (Hujia Expressway).
The district has 90 bus routes covering all of its
towns as well as downtown Shanghai and suburban areas with a total length of
1,000 km. It can provide 760 taxis via GPRS smart phones and has 26
inter-province bus routes, to the cities of Hangzhou, Suzhou and Kunshan, and 146 transit bus
routes from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shandong, Henan, Sichuan,
and Hubei provinces.
Its waterways handle 11.5 million tons of freight annually.
The district has one of the country's best
international communications networks and, by the end of 2011, had 413,500
fixed-phone line customers, 94,700 IPTV customeers, 232,200 broadband network
users, and 223,700 CDMA movable voice users. It has a total of 1.7 million
mobile phone customers, with 300, 000 registered by 2011. It has backed the
MONET project, a joint effort of the Shanghai government and China Telecom,
using optical broadband transmission, with the idea of "megabytes for
households, gigabytes for buildings, and terabytes for export", and
service for 185,000 families in the district.
Jiading has plentiful power, gas, and water, with a
power-supply reliability near 99.98 percent. The Shidongkou Power Plant and
East China Grid Co cover its power consumption for industries and living, which
was above 8.07 billion kWh, in 2011. The nation's west-to-east gas pipeline
project can meet the natural gas needs of Jiading, and 349,735 people used more
than 135 cubic meters of natural gas, in 2011. The district's drinking water
comes from the Yangtze River through a water channel built in 1997, with the
Jiading Water Supply Co supplying 159 million tons of water, in 2011, a
year-on-year increase of 1.27 percent, and 133 million tons of it with a water
quality qualified of 99.55 [percent????].
Jiading is making optimal use of its agriculture and
is reducing the planting area for grain and commercial crops and the scale of
animal husbandry and aquatic products. It is currently focusing on special
agricultural products such as grapes, Hami melons, and towel gourds, and has 20
agricultural brands, such as the Malu grape. It has 6,000 hectares for
ecological agriculture, such as Jiabao Ecological Forest and Jiangqiao
Ecological Park and is developing agricultural tourism in places like the
Jiading Modern Agricultural Park. It also has 3,176 hectares of protected
fields, established online agricultural services, and 144 farmer cooperatives.
Jiading has a development strategy for science and
education and talented personnel that depends on scientific and technological
progress and innovation to build a new industrial system. Enterprises in those
fields got approval for 273 national and municipal projects, in 2011, an
increase of 24.6 percent, year-on-year, which brought national and municipal
subsidies of 86.26 million yuan, an increase of 54 percent year-on-year. The
district has set up two technology business incubators for Shanghai, which
attracted 152 enterprises, in 2011. That same year, two of its enterprises won
"National Innovative Enterprise" awards, while 16 were recognized as
Shanghai Scientific and Technological Cultivators, 10 were added to the
National Torch Program's key hi-tech list, and 92 were recognized as National
High-Tech Enterprises, bringing the total to 315.
.Jiading is also a Ministry of Education reform pilot
for rural education, a Prairie Fire Program demonstration site, and a
quality-oriented education pilot. In 2011, it had 57 pre-school places, 24
primary schools, and 34 middle and high schools, attending to 23,906 pre-school
children, 31,018 pupils, 18,135 middle school students, 5857 high school
students, 4756 vocational school students, and 152 special school students.
Jiading has an abundance of historical and cultural
relics, and its culture business and activities are thriving, with a culture
center, museum, library, youth activity center, radio and TV station, and the
Lu Yanshao Art Gallery. It has five historic sites with municipal protection
and 54 with district protection and occasionally schedules cultural festivals,
such as the Culture Festival, Chrysanthemum Festival, and Art Festival. It also
promotes folk arts, such as bamboo carving, Xuhang straw-weaving, and Nnaxiang
steamed buns. It also has traditional sports activities, such as martial arts
and board games and has held international competitions, such as a marathon,
heel-and-toe walking race, and judo, as well as national competitions in
table-tennis, weiqi (go), Chinese chess, martial arts, and football. Its sport
facilities include a chess room, gymnasiums, martial arts schools, swimming
pools, and a sports center. Jiading host an annual FIA Formula One World
Championship race at the Shanghai International Circuit, built in 2004. The
district also held a boccia competition for the 2007 Special Olympics World
Summer Games and entertained players and coaches from 60 countries and regions.
Jiading cooperates as a Primary Health Care Center
and is a pilot China Health City, recognized by the World Health Orgnization.
It is an advanced work area for primary health care, and has six
level-IIhospitals, with 2,856 beds, and 14 private medical institutes, with 150
beds.
Jiading also has many scenic spots, with most of its
and Nanxiang's historical sites recognized as "Historic Towns of
China" by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the
State Administration of Cultural Heritage. The district's Fahu Tower and
Zhouqiao Old Street, built during the Song Dynasty, were the central part of
the city of Lianqi, the predecessor of Jiading town. The southern part of
Jiading has the Confucius Temple, built in 1219, with splendid halls and
corridors. On the east side of it is the Danghu Academy, Shanghai's only
academy, built in the Qing Dynasty. Huilongtan Park is also a tourist
attraction in the old town [separated by water from the Confucius Temple].
Qiuxiapu, a famous classical garden park, consists of private gardens belonging
to the Gong, Shen, and Jin families during the Ming Dynasty and the town's
Temple. And there are a pair of pavilion-style pagodas in Nanxiang, with a
graceful appearance and a history of more than 1,000 years. Also situated in
the town of Jiangqiao are the Huang Family Plantation (Garden), built in 1928
and famous for its rare trees. Jiading also has some places for recreation such
as Shanghai Golf Club and the Oriental Paris Golf Country Club.
Shanghai Volkswagen Industrial Tourist Park, the
Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai Automobile Exhibition Center, and
Shanghai Auto Museum all opened after 2003, in Jiading, as new Shanghai
attractions. The China Imperial Exam Museum, Shanghai Auto Museum, and Shanghai
Automobile Exhibition Center were completed in 2006. The Jiading Bamboo
Carvings Museum opened to the public in 2007, and Waigang Guerrilla Museum, in
2008. Jiading's tourism has grown rapidly and it now has the Zhouqiao National
AAAA Scenic Spot, Malu Grape Theme Park, and Huatingrenjia National AAA Scenic
Spot, and has held the Shanghai Auto Culture Festival and various activities
for the Shanghai Tourism Festival.
