Online payment through Wechat, Alipay and UnionPay is now permitted in Shanghai when applying for or replacing entry-exit documents.  Read more
The annual Shanghai Confucius Cultural Festival is set to take place in Shanghai's Jiading district on Sept 7-28.  Read more
Ada Yonath, Nobel laureate in chemistry in 2009, recently paid a visit to Shanghai's Jiading district to promote the opening of the newly opened Nobel Prize Academic Exchange Center.  Read more
China's first privately designed LEO (low Earth orbit) communications satellite, named Jiading-1 or OKW-01, is set to launch in November this year.  Read more
An environmentally friendly underground sewage treatment plant recently finished its construction in Jiading's Nanxiang town, Shanghai, the first of its kind in the city.  Read more
Read marathon is one for the record books
2018-09-03A large-scale read marathon, the world's largest reading promotion activity, is set to take place in Shanghai and in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui provinces on Sept 15.  Read more
A variety of cultural events are set to take place in Jiading district, Shanghai from Aug 18-26 to celebrate the opening of More Fun, a new shopping center in Jiading.  Read more
Jiading district has been chosen as one of the five districts in Shanghai to develop medical industrial clusters, which will accelerate the development of Jiading's precision medicine and health service.  Read more
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Great places to visit in Jiading
Two of Jiading's great sites, Jiading Museum and Hantianheng Art Museum, were chosen as part of the third batch of worth-visiting places in Shanghai.