The Baoshan District of Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

 has a land area of 424.58 km² and a population of 1,905,000 as of 2010.

Landmarks

Downtown Baoshan is the location of Baosteel

Baosteel

Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation , commonly referred to as Baosteel is a state-owned iron and steel company headquartered in Shanghai, China....

's head office. The main campus of Shanghai University

Shanghai University

Shanghai University is a public, comprehensive university located in Shanghai, China. The university has the longest serving President; Chien Wei-zang since 1982 until he died in 2010. He was a well known scientist in China...

 is also located in Baoshan District. The Anti-Japanese War Memorial Park on Donglin Lu has a small museum with artifacts from the Second World War, and a modern glass and steel pagoda. One of several schools in the district, Xing Zhi Middle School was founded by the famous educationalist from Nanjing, Tao Xingzhi

Tao Xingzhi

Tao Xingzhi , was a renowned 20th century Chinese educator and reformer. He studied at Teachers College, Columbia University and returned to China to champion progressive education. His career in China as a liberal educator was not derivative of John Dewey, as some have alleged, but creative and...

.

Transportation

Baoshan District is now served by Shanghai's Metro Network

Shanghai Metro

The Shanghai Metro is the urban rapid transit system of China's largest city, Shanghai. The system incorporates both subway and light rail lines. It opened in 1995, making Shanghai the third city in Mainland China, after Beijing and Tianjin, to have a rapid transit system...

.There are 3 metro lines from Baoshan to central Shanghai: Line 1, Line 3 and Line 7. The 952B bus runs from the corner of Youyizhi Lu and Youyi Lu to People's Square

People's Square

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 in central Shanghai. The number 5 tourist bus runs from Mudanjiang Lu to Jiangwan Zhen

Jiangwan Zhen

Jiangwan Town is the name of a station on the Shanghai Metro Line 3. This station was the northern terminus of that line until December 18, 2006, when the northern extension of Line 3 was opened....

 metro station. There is also a ferry terminal which serves several destinations, including a two-hour trip to Chongming Island and a 12-hour trip to the Buddhist island of Putuoshan.

See also

• Wusong
  Wusong
  Wusong,Chinese: s , t , p Wúsōng. formerly Woosung, was a port town located fourteen miles downriver from Shanghai.The Battle of Woosung occurred on 16 June 1842 between British and Chinese forces during the First Opium War. It was the site of China's first telegraph wires and first railroad, both...