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Global mayors unite in city to discuss a greener future

CITIES are stepping up as key problem-solvers amid growing challenges such as climate change, rapid urbanization and economic pressures. The role was on full display at the Global Mayors Dialogue and ...

Yang Jian, Lu Feiran and Li Xueqing | May 31, 2025, Saturday

The cities don’t wait, and Shanghai just hosted the reason why

SHANGHAI knows how to host a conference. There were banners, nameplates and a sea of translators navigating diplomatic poetry into seven languages simultaneously. But underneath all the organization of ...

Jacob Aldaco | May 31, 2025, Saturday

How director Bi Gan rewrites the history of Chinese films

CHINESE director Bi Gan won the Special Award at the recent 78th Cannes Film Festival for his film “Resurrection” (Kuang Ye Shi Dai). Once again, this director from southwest China’s Guizhou Province ...

Yang Yiting | May 29, 2025, Thursday

Film and TV festivals set to offer a variety of programs

THE upcoming 27th Shanghai International Film Festival and the 30th Shanghai TV Festival announced the full jury lists for SIFF’s Golden Goblet Awards and STVF’s Magnolia Awards last week, when official ...

Xu Wei | May 27, 2025, Tuesday

A city market for tailor-made clothes

UNLESS you’ve been living under a Shanghai rock or you’re completely new to the city, there is a famous tourist attraction that is actually useful, the South Bund Fabric Market. And you’re in luck, in ...

Tima Fei | May 27, 2025, Tuesday

‘Youth in Harmony!’ International schools charity concert strikes a chord

THE 2025 International Schools Charity Concert “Soundwaves Across Mountains and Seas: Youth in Harmony” wrapped up at the Shanghai Concert Hall last Thursday, uniting performers and audiences in a vibrant ...

Ding Yining | May 27, 2025, Tuesday

Meet the ‘chicken commander,’ China’s new rural generation

How long would it take you to feed 10,000 chickens? For one Gen Z farmer in China, just 30 minutes — thanks to a homemade monorail-style feeding system that’s gone viral online. Now known as the “chicken ...

Zhang Long | May 22, 2025, Thursday

Weaving Shanghai’s natural wetlands into the everyday life of locals

UNDER a green canopy in Qingpu’s “Little Amazon of Shanghai,” a kayaker glides through quiet, reed-lined waterways. In the morning mist on Chongming Island, walkers view the once nearly extinct Père David’s ...

Yang Jian | May 20, 2025, Tuesday

In my backyard, cosplayers point the way forward in urban renaissance

XUJIAHUI, one of Shanghai’s most historically storied and commercially vibrant areas, has been home to me for more than a decade. I’ve watched its seasons change, its malls open and fade, and its foot ...

Leo Zhang | May 17, 2025, Saturday

Not just online clicks but clicking with consumers

After nearly a decade of rapid growth, online retailing is beginning to show cracks in a sales format that once seemed bulletproof. Where once traditional bricks-and-mortar stores were rushing to embrace ...

Tan Weiyun | May 15, 2025, Thursday

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