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Articles for Chongming

The flight to recovery
7 months, 3 weeks ago

The flight to recovery

China Daily  

Birds fly freely at the Chongming Dongtan National Nature Reserve in Shanghai late last month. The Chongming Dongtan National Nature Reserve in Shanghai, which is located in the middle of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, is a major stopover point for migratory waterbirds making the long journey. These wetlands on the eastern coast of Chongming Island are also home to the …

Migratory Migratory Birds Fudan University Bird Banding Banding Birds
Weaving a revival
2 years, 4 months ago

Weaving a revival

China Daily  

While many companies have been leveraging technology to create new fabrics customized for all kinds of scenarios in the modern age, a small group of women in Shanghai has been doing the exact opposite with their valiant endeavors to revive the popularity of an ancient cloth－Chongming homespun, also known as tubu. Listed as a city-level intangible cultural heritage, this fabric …

Fabric Chongming
A natural approach
2 years, 4 months ago

A natural approach

China Daily  

A 12,000-square-meter area of land on Shanghai's Chongming Island has been transformed dramatically by Xiong Feng into a farm with a rice field, a lotus pond, pavilions, boathouses, docks and secluded corners where visitors can spend their leisure time close to nature. While many people have been cranking up their air conditioners to deal with the ongoing heat wave in …

Air Shanghai Farm Chongming Island Visitors Xiong
A natural approach
2 years, 4 months ago

A natural approach

China Daily  

A 12,000-square-meter area of land on Shanghai's Chongming Island has been transformed dramatically by Xiong Feng into a farm with a rice field, a lotus pond, pavilions, boathouses, docks and secluded corners where visitors can spend their leisure time close to nature. While many people have been cranking up their air conditioners to deal with the ongoing heat wave in …

Air Shanghai Farm Chongming Island Visitors Xiong
A natural approach
2 years, 4 months ago

A natural approach

China Daily  

A 12,000-square-meter area of land on Shanghai's Chongming Island has been transformed dramatically by Xiong Feng into a farm with a rice field, a lotus pond, pavilions, boathouses, docks and secluded corners where visitors can spend their leisure time close to nature. Xiong is also planning to create a map featuring the key waterways in Chongming before going all out …

Visitors Xiong Chongming
A natural approach
2 years, 4 months ago

A natural approach

China Daily  

A 12,000-square-meter area of land on Shanghai's Chongming Island has been transformed dramatically by Xiong Feng into a farm with a rice field, a lotus pond, pavilions, boathouses, docks and secluded corners where visitors can spend their leisure time close to nature. While many people have been cranking up their air conditioners to deal with the ongoing heat wave in …

Air Shanghai Farm Xiong Chongming Island
A natural approach
2 years, 4 months ago

A natural approach

China Daily  

A 12,000-square-meter area of land on Shanghai's Chongming Island has been transformed dramatically by Xiong Feng into a farm with a rice field, a lotus pond, pavilions, boathouses, docks and secluded corners where visitors can spend their leisure time close to nature. Xiong is also planning to create a map featuring the key waterways in Chongming before going all out …

Visitors Xiong Chongming
Lockdown leaves couple stranded in forest park
2 years, 6 months ago

Lockdown leaves couple stranded in forest park

China Daily  

The COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai has confined a couple to their RV in the Dongping National Forest Park on the city's Chongming Island for nearly two months. The latest COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai has confined most people to their homes, but for a couple who happened to be on a trip to Chongming Island before the lockdown, the confinement has …

Couple Shanghai Park Forest Park
Lockdown leaves couple stranded in forest park
2 years, 6 months ago

Lockdown leaves couple stranded in forest park

China Daily  

The COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai has confined a couple to their RV in the Dongping National Forest Park on the city's Chongming Island for nearly two months. The latest COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai has confined most people to their homes, but for a couple who happened to be on a trip to Chongming Island before the lockdown, the confinement has …

Couple Shanghai Park Forest Park
Valiant volunteer drivers pitch in to help Shanghai
2 years, 7 months ago

Valiant volunteer drivers pitch in to help Shanghai

China Daily  

Volunteer Yang Cheng delivers medication for diabetes to a resident in Shanghai. Photo provided to CHINA DAILY Team delivers lifesaving drugs to patients across city Since early this month, Zhu Yang, 59, a senior drug development researcher at Shanghai Pharmaceuticals Holding Co, has also been acting as a courier delivering medicines－lifesaving ones in many cases－to patients in urgent need. He …

Volunteer Drugs Delivery Volunteers Orders Work Team
Flower power gives fragrance during Spring Festival
2 years, 11 months ago

Flower power gives fragrance during Spring Festival

The Independent  

With Spring Festival approaching, many Chinese people have started to prepare for the traditional celebration by growing a flower, the Chinese daffodil. Fan Chunyan, a flower hobbyist in Shanghai, bought two Chinese daffodil bulbs on 25 December 2021. When it blooms, the fragrance is so mesmerising that the festival feels incomplete without it.” In the Hongqiao Flower Market of Shanghai, …

Shanghai Flower Shi Chinese Festival Daffodils Bulbs Chongming
China's new flower haven
4 years, 2 months ago

China's new flower haven

China Daily  

Tourists visit the tulip show held during the National Day holiday on the Chongming Island in Shanghai. To celebrate the National Day holiday, the Chongming government and Orient International Shanghai Flower Development Co put up a spectacle that would normally be possible only in spring－a mega showcase of 1.8 million colorful tulips covering 6 hectares. "The China Flower Expo poses …

China Shanghai Island Flower Chongming
China's new flower haven
4 years, 2 months ago

China's new flower haven

China Daily  

Tourists visit the tulip show held during the National Day holiday on the Chongming Island in Shanghai. To celebrate the National Day holiday, the Chongming government and Orient International Shanghai Flower Development Co put up a spectacle that would normally be possible only in spring－a mega showcase of 1.8 million colorful tulips covering 6 hectares. "The China Flower Expo poses …

China Shanghai Island Flower Chongming
Flower haven set to bloom
4 years, 4 months ago

Flower haven set to bloom

China Daily  

An aerial view of farmland in Chengqiao township on Chongming Island. The island district of Shanghai will host the 2021 China Flower Expo. LI JUN/FOR CHINA DAILY Li Jiaqi, a popular livestreaming personality in China, is best known for selling lipstick on e-commerce platforms, but on July 25, he published a special video to promote something entirely different－Shanghai's Chongming Island, …

Shanghai Island Expo Flower Chongming Island China Flower Expo
Flower haven set to bloom
4 years, 4 months ago

Flower haven set to bloom

China Daily  

An aerial view of farmland in Chengqiao township on Chongming Island. The island district of Shanghai will host the 2021 China Flower Expo. LI JUN/FOR CHINA DAILY Li Jiaqi, a popular livestreaming personality in China, is best known for selling lipstick on e-commerce platforms, but on July 25, he published a special video to promote something entirely different－Shanghai's Chongming Island, …

Shanghai Island Expo Flower Chongming Island China Flower Expo
Tourism changes a village's fortunes
4 years, 4 months ago

Tourism changes a village's fortunes

China Daily  

Just 35 years ago, Yingdong village on Shanghai's Chongming Island was nothing more than a small settlement located on reclaimed land. In 2018, the village started cooperating with Chongming Tourism Investment and Development Co, allowing the company to manage the resort, which has since undergone a transformation of its own. Today, the resort features a restaurant situated beside an artificial …

Village Chongming Yingdong Village