What is New The 10th Songjiang "Root of Shanghai" Cultural Tourism Festival and 2012 Songjiang Shopping Festival will be held on Sept 17 at Songjiang Kaiyuan-Mediterranean Plaza in Shanghai.
The Shanghai Happy Valley Carnival Festival successfully finished on August 26. The carnival festival lasted 58 days from July 30 to August 26 and impressed tourists with a fun summer experience.
Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden is preparing for the 2012 Chenshan Autumn Flower Show by utilizing new methods to popularize scientific knowledge. The show's new methods make use of new media and are geared towards the needs of teenage visitors.
Jiang Kai and two other research assistants from Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden have won the 2013 BGCI-KFBG Travel Scholarship, sponsored by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and the Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG). They will go to Hong Kong to receive training at KFBG from Jan 21 to Feb 2, 2013.
Chinese tradition says at the very beginning of a new year, when there's a bright full moon hanging in the sky, there should be thousands of colorful lanterns hung out for people to appreciate and thus, the Lantern Festival is celebrated in winter.
The return of Maroon 5 to Shanghai after four years is in support of its new album, Overexposed, Zhang Kun reports in Shanghai.
The 14th China Shanghai International Arts Festival has made great efforts to bring arts to a wider and younger audience.
Rory McIlroy will be the major attraction at this year's BMW Masters when the Northern Irishman returns to Shanghai in October following his stunning victory at the US PGA Championship at Kiawah Island three weeks ago and Deutsche Bank Championship win at TPC Boston on Sept 3.
