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Jiading District

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Country
  
China

Time zone
  
China Standard (UTC+8)

Local time
  
Saturday 9:31 PM

Region
  
Shanghai

Area
  
458.8 km²


Weather
  
12°C, Wind SE at 18 km/h, 61% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Guyi Garden, Jiading Wistaria Garden, Shanghai Auto Museum, Jiading Bamboo Carving, Nanxiang Ancient Town

Jiading is a suburban district of Shanghai. It had a population of 1,471,100 in 2010.

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Map of Jiading, Shanghai, China

Geography

Jiading District is located in the northwestern part of Shanghai. It stretches across 463.9 square kilometers (179.1 sq mi). It is located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) from downtown Shanghai. It is connected to downtown by the Hujia Expressway, which was the first expressway in Shanghai. It is near Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport but across town from the Pudong International Airport.

Administration

Jiading administers several towns including Jiading, Anting, Nanxiang, Huating, Xuhang, Waigang, Huangdu, Malu Town and Jiangqiao.

Landmarks

Shanghai University has a campus in downtown Jiading, which is where SILC is based.

The Shanghai International Circuit is located in Jiading. Each year in April the Shanghai International Circuit holds the Chinese Grand Prix.

The Jiading Confucian Temple is one of the best conserved county-level Confucian temples in China. It has gone through several repairs in the past 800 years.

The Fahua Pagoda located in central Jiading is a tetrahedral brick-wooden pagoda with seven floors and a height of 40.85 meters (134.0 ft).

The Bamboo Carving Museum, covering bamboo carving over the past 400 years since the mid-Ming Dynasty.

Accommodation

There are numerous international hotels within the Jiading district. The most famous hotel is the Crowne Plaza Shanghai Anting. It is the first 5* International hotel in Jiading & Anting area.

Notable people

  • Yang Yongliang (b. 1980), artist
  • James S.C. Chao (b. ~1935), merchant mariner, business leader, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Foremost Group
  • Metro

    Jiading is currently served by two metro lines operated by Shanghai Metro:

  •      Line 11 - Nanxiang, Malu, Jiading Xincheng, Baiyin Road, West Jiading, North Jiading / Shanghai Circuit, East Changji Road, Shanghai Automobile City, Anting
  •      Line 13 - Jinyun Road, West Jinshajiang Road, Fengzhuang
  • References

    Jiading District Wikipedia