Pujiang (;
Shanghainese: ''Phugaon'') is a town in
Minhang District
Minhang District is a suburban district of Shanghai with a land area of and population of 2,429,000 residents as of 2010. The original Minhang consist of present-day Jiangchuan Road Subdistrict (Former Minhang Town) and the eastern strip of Wu ...
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Shanghai
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China. It contains Pujiang New Town, which is a
new town with an Italian architectural theme, sometimes referred to as Città di Pujiang. It also contains Zhaojialou (;
Shanghainese: ''Tsogalheu''), an old water town which is undergoing
restoration, Caohejing Pujiang Hi-Tech Park and Shanghai National Civil Aerospace Industrial Base.
Pujiang has an area of 102 square kilometres and had a registered population of 101,900 in 2008.
It is on the east bank of the
Huangpu River, about from central Shanghai. It is served by
Shanghai Metro Line 8
Line 8 is a north-south line of the Shanghai Metro network. It runs from , in Yangpu District to , in Minhang. The line is colored on system maps.
History
The subway line's first phase began trial operation on September 17, 2007 and officially o ...
, whose southern extension to
Aerospace Museum Station in Pujiang was opened in 2009.
New town
Pujiang New Town is a product of the One City, Nine Towns policy, which was initiated in 2001 and lasted for the duration of the tenth
five year plan (2001–2005). Each of the suburban
districts of Shanghai
Shanghai is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of People's Republic of China, and is further divided into 16 districts. There is no single downtown district in Shanghai as the urban core is scattered across several districts, alth ...
was assigned a new town, each with its own theme. Pujiang was designated as Minhang District's new town, with an Italian theme. Other Western themes used to date are
Scandinavian,
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The Italian architects
Gregotti Associati produced the plan for the new town, with a total area of 15 square kilometres,
[den Hartog (2010b), p. 148] laid out in a grid pattern. A 2.6 square kilometre section in the north of the town was built by developer Highpower-OCT Investment, with the continuing involvement of Gregotti, as well as other Italian architects.
This section has garden
villa
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s, an
Italian palace and a
piazza
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with a
bell tower. However, such Italian features were not used in the town's south eastern section, which became a high density development to house the people displaced from the site of Shanghai's
2010 World Expo
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. By 2010 the new town's registered population was around 50,000.
[ Construction was still in progress as of March 2012.][
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Zhaojialou
Zhaojialou is an ancient water town which has undergone extensive rebuilding and renovation. After three years of restoration, stage one of the three stage program was completed in 2010.
Economy
Caohejing Pujiang Hi-Tech Park, a High Tech Industrial Development Zone covering 10.7 square kilometres, is an extension of Shanghai Caohejing Hi-Tech Park. It contains Caohejing Export Processing Zone, Pujiang Intelligence Valley Business Park, and Shanghai National 863 Software Incubator Base.
Shanghai National Civil Aerospace Industrial Base was set up in 2007, with the intention of creating an aerospace research and development centre, an aerospace industrial park and an aerospace museum.
Shanghai Minhang Modern Agricultural Garden was established in Pujiang in 2000. It has an area of 27 square kilometres.
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