Minhang boasts new events and city-centers for the coming year
Riverside park gets facelift
After undergoing a facelift project, the Minhang Riverside Park along Pujiang Road is now open to the public. The park was previously a wet market on Minhang Old Street but was renovated in 2018 to showcase the rich history of the area, including the ferry station culture and beautiful water scenery.
Shanghai artist's works on show
Visitors are attracted to a painting by Shanghai artist Feng Yuan, who is displaying about 500 paintings at the Haipai Museum in Minhang District through April 23. The work, covering a time span of over 40 years, explores art and historic topics while expressing the artist's admiration of ancient Chinese literati and his empathy toward people of all walks of society. The exhibition closes on Mondays and offers free entrance.
"Dance of the Miao ethnic minority group" by Feng Yuan
"A Shannxi bride" by Feng Yuan
Beer culture park opens
Reeb 1987, an industry-city integrated park in Meilong Town, will have its east block, the first beer culture commercial complex in Shanghai, open to the public this year. A 1.4-square-kilometer commercial street and a 2.5-square-kilometer shopping mall will begin operation in October and December respectively. The commercial block, while expressing a citywide nostalgia for the Shanghai Reeb Beer Factory, will become another iconic landmark for young people, and offer convenient shopping options for residents living south of Humin Road.
Crochet map
The 1982 Xinzhuang Town map on a crochet artwork created by Jin Longhua and her fellow craftsmen.
Jin Longhua, a 72-year-old resident of Minhang District and artisan of the intangible culture of Xinzhuang crochet, has created a crochet artwork with her fellow craftsmen based on an old map of Xinzhuang in 1982, as the town embraces its 30th anniversary of its township and village merger this year. The crocheted map, weaved with crop-shaped artifacts like cotton and rice figurines, showcases the region's past.
Daycare for the autistic
A daycare center for people with autism has recently opened at 3896 Duyuan Road in Zhuanqiao Town. The center will prioritize life skills, labor and recuperation training for autistic people 16 years and older, helping them better adjust to society.
Hubo commercial space
An underground corridor, 1,200 meters long and linking Hongqiao Comprehensive Traffic Hub and the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), has been renovated into the Hubo commercial space. Housing concept stores including a luxury goods second-hand exchange platform, Zuoyou art supermarket and creative retail brand Unpop Store, the commercial space is expected to open to the public in the first half of this year.
Sport center in Vi Park
A new sports center inside the Vi Park at 1391 Humin Road, the former site of the Shanghai Zhengtai Rubber Factory, started operation recently. The center, situated inside the sci-tech innovation park, covers 7,000 square meters and includes 19 standard badminton courts, three basketball courts for adults and one for children, and some gyms.
Grand neoBay Library
The Grand neoBay Library at 158 Lanping Road will open to the public by the end of this month. As part of its opening ceremony activities, the library will launch an exhibition, in which the diverse architecture styles and book storage information of world famous libraries will be introduced.
Minhang Today
Minhang has launched an aerospace culture tour. The tour includes a community aerospace exhibition hall in Maqiao Town, where models of Long March 5 carrier rocket, Chang'e 4 lunar rover and FY 4 meteorological satellite are on display, as well as the Shanghai Aerospace Science Popularization Center, an aerospace seeding base and an experience center.
Minhang boasts a slew of ancient plants that include a 500-year-old wisteria on Lincang Road, a 700-year-old gingko tree couple inside the Qibao campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a 100-year-old pine tree at Minhang Hotel and a Hackberry tree dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), which is said to be planted by an old couple sending prayers to their sick daughter.
A Starbucks store in Yves Klein blue appeared at the Wenfu Road wet market in Maqiao Town recently, to achieve a tone-on-tone look with its environment. The color is said to help relax people's mood while they're shopping. The Starbucks store is a "green" outlet that uses energy-efficient electrical appliances and mercury-free LED lighting.
The birthplace of Dong Qichang
The residence of Dong Qichang (1555-1636), a great painter and calligrapher during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), is situated in the south of Maqiao Town. From 1962 to 1965, a host of cultural relics, including lacquer wares, blue printed quilts, memorial tablet rubbings and a Taoist monk certificate issued by then government, were unearthed there.
Fun-filled carnival
Teachers and students have a fun-filled day at Wenlai Middle School's annual carnival on April 1.
