Anting () is a town in Jiading District,

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, bordering

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to the west. It has 96,000 inhabitants and, after the July 2009 merger of Huangdu (), an area of .市政府批准嘉定设立新的安亭镇
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Overview

Anting is one of the centres of the Chinese

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; it is home to

Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation SAIC Motor Corp., Ltd. (formerly Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation) is a Chinese State-owned enterprises of China, state-owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Anting, Shanghai. Founded in 1955, it is currently the largest of the ...

and includes the German/Chinese

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Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive SAIC Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd., formerly known as Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd. is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Anting, Shanghai, China and a joint venture between Volkswagen Group and SAIC Motor. It was ...

. This enterprise has the largest

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of passenger cars in China. The Shanghai International Circuit, China's first

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race track, is located near the town, a 15-minute drive away. The

Shanghai Auto Museum Shanghai Auto Museum is an automobile museum located in Anting, Jiading District, Shanghai, China, in the Auto Expo Park of Shanghai International Automobile City. Designed by the Architectural Design & Research Institute of Tongji University and ...

is also located here, on Boyuan Road.

Subdivisions

, Anting is divided into 20 residential communities () and 43 villages, among the most well-known of which is Tamiao (), which is nicknamed the "Auto City". In the southern part of town, an extension of "Anting Auto City" called "Anting New Town" () is being built in the fashion of "Anting German Town" ().Anting German Town: Chinas deutsche Geisterstadt
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German Town

The first phase of Anting New Town construction will be completed in June 2007, with the second phase slated to begin before the end of 2007, the latter spanning three years. Upon completion the hope is that the resulting town will be a modern community, with a noticeably German urban aesthetic, with a capacity of over 50,000 residents. However, amid tentative financial troubles and poor sales of housing and retail, the phase 2 of Anting New Town may be delayed. German Town is modelled on a modern German-style town with colourful Bauhaus-type buildings. The district was designed by Frankfurt-based architecture firm Albert Speer & Partner. Speer is the son of the eponymous architect who was Hitler’s chief architect during World War II.

Transportation

Anting is served by Line 11 of the

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, connected to the Lifehub shopping center Anting Station. Anting North Railway Station is on the

Shanghai–Nanjing Intercity Railway The Shanghai–Nanjing intercity railway or Huning intercity railway () is a -long high-speed rail line between Shanghai and Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province. and are shorthand Chinese names for Shanghai and Nanjing, respectively. The ...

Accommodation

The first 5* International hotel,

Crowne Plaza Shanghai Anting Golf Crowne Plaza Shanghai Anting Golf is a hotel in the city of Shanghai, China. It is known for being the first five-star international hotel in the district of Jiading. It is a 415-room hotel located at No. 6555 Boyuan Road. It has an 18-hole golf ...

, opened its doors in Anting, Jiading District on 4 September 2012. It is located at 6555 Boyuan Road.

Entertainment

Lifehub@Anting, an entertainment complex located just beside the Metro Line 11, provides numerous Clothing outlets, local and international restaurants and coffee shops, a supermarket, film theatre, etc.

References

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