The Spring Festival spirit is in full swing at Shanghai's Panlong Tiandi, where a New Year temple fair, snake and fish-shaped lanterns, booths featuring intangible cultural heritage items, and more have created a festive atmosphere.
In order to further facilitate foreign business people in coming to Shanghai for business activities, these special visa facilitation measures will be taken for eligible foreign business people.
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport is stepping up preparations for the 2025 Spring Festival travel rush, which runs from Jan 14 to Feb 22.
All four major railway stations in Shanghai will operate around the clock starting Jan 20, with their waiting areas to remain open 24 hours a day.
The efforts made by Shanghai's Hongqiao International Central Business District (CBD) to boost development and international trade throughout 2024 yielded fruitful results, according to the CBD's administrative committee.
Shanghai announced plans to encourage the establishment of wholly foreign-owned hospitals in the municipality's key economic zones, biopharmaceutical industry clusters and downtown districts with a high concentration of expatriate residents.
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport shortened cut-off time for domestic flights to 35 minutes or less from 40 min.
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport saw an annual passenger throughput of 47.97 million in 2024, ranking ninth nationwide.
