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Monday 25 December 2017鈥?Shanghai Daily

       June:                                July

       Stair climbers

          Disabled and elderly residents
       living in buildings without lifts
       no longer are restricted to their
       homes.

          The district pioneered the
       rental of stair chair lifts in the
       Pengpu Xincu and Linfen Road
       communities.

          He Yuexian, 84, was among
       the beneficiaries. The automated
       stair chair enabled her to go out-
       side her fourth-floor apartment
       into the fresh air for the first
       time in years.

          It takes about one minute for
       one of the chairs to climb or
       descend one story. The program
       will be expanded to other needy
       communities in the future.

       July:                                    October                          December

oking  Storytelling in                      20 badminton courts.                           All photos by Jiang Xiaowei and Hua Ping
17                                             Some 7,000 people have com-
       memorials                                                                 then the offices of media tycoon      memories of the past. Many of
                                            peted there in 450 events.           Rupert Murdoch. In 2011, Prada        the old names were changed over
          New technologies surprised                                             took over tenancy.                    time.
       visitors when the Memorial and       October:
       Museum of the Second National        Icon of local                        November:                                Shanzhongli will be among the
       Congress of the Communist            heritage                             A smarter                             19 residential complexes with re-
       Party of China reopened after a                                           Nanjing Road                          stored names.
       four-month renovation.                  The historic Rong Villa
                                            reopened after a six-year reno-         The big data revolution will          鈥淲e haven鈥檛 called it Shan-
          In a break from staid, ste-       vation involving Italian luxury      transform commerce along the          zhongli for years, and young
       reotyped Party memorial sites,       brand Prada. Skilled craftsmen       popular shopping street of Nan-       residents don鈥檛 even know that
       the refurbished museum both          from Italy and China combined        jing Road W., turning it into a       name,鈥?said Cao Huilin, a neigh-
       educates and entertains visitors.    forces to repair broken pieces       鈥渟mart zone.鈥?                        borhood official. 鈥淭hey call it 113
       With augmented-reality glasses,      and restore the original look of                                           Changshu Road. We are reviving
       they can step into rooms where       the building.                           Under the new system, retailers    memories to help raise awareness
       history took place 95 years ago                                           will be able to adjust their mer-     about history and culture.鈥?       during the first plenary session of     The site is the former residence  chandise according to consumer
       the Second National Congress of      of Rong Zongjing (1873-1938),        data collected from various chan-        A resident鈥檚 old photograph
       the Community Party of China.        an industrial tycoon who built       nels, including WiFi access and       of the neighborhood has been
                                            a commercial empire in China.        UnionPay transfers. They will         blown up and replicated on a
          Through computer-generated        Rong and younger brother Rong        also identify which classes of        large wall at the entrance to the
       sensory technology, visitors also    Desheng became magnates in           consumers are best targeted to        neighborhood.
       can see the Party constitution       flour and textiles. Nephew Rong      increase sales and how to set
       appear above a table and flick       Yiren, who served as vice presi-     prices.                                  Shanzhongli, which has 25
       through it automatically. Later,     dent of China from 1993-98,                                                English-style garden townhous-
       in the augmented presentation,       founded the China International         Jing鈥檃n officials plan to put the  es, was built in 1930 along the Say
       early Party leaders who attended     Trust & Investment Corp in 1979      system into full operation next       Zoong Route, presently named
       the session appear, sitting at a     and became known as the 鈥淩ed         year.                                 Changshu Road.
       table and conversing.                Capitalist.鈥?                                                                                 December:                                The city government placed
       August:                                 Rong Zongjing bought the          Cultural ambience                     Shanzhongli on its list of heri-
                                            Shanghai garden villa site from a                                          tage buildings in 1999. It was the
       Suzhou Creek                         German in 1918. Its classic Beaux       A district-wide overhaul of old    only road in the former French
                                            Arts-style facade has been main-     buildings is nearing its end as       Concession that was named after
       crossing                             tained, while the interior decor by  part of a district policy to im-      a Chinese.
                                            Eclectic & Art Deco Styles retains   prove the ambience and lifestyles
          Residents living in old houses    traditional Chinese elements.        of neighborhoods. Many ideas             Say Zoong is a French trans-
       along Changping Road were re-                                             have come from the grassroots.        literation of Shanzhong, a
       located to modern apartments to         Over the years, the villa has                                           pseudonym of the late property
       make way for a new bridge cross-     changed occupancy several               Jing鈥檃nsi Community, for ex-       tycoon Tao Ruzeng.
       ing Suzhou Creek.                    times, housing the China Eco-        ample, is restoring the original
                                            nomic Research Institute and         names of old alleys to recapture         The former residences of fa-
          For residents, it meant an end                                                                               mous generals Jiang Guangnai,
       to dilapidated, cramped living                                                                                  Dai Ji and Feng Zhi鈥檃n were lo-
       conditions.                                                                                                     cated on Say Zoong Route. The
                                                                                                                       19 old residential complexes
          The bridge has multiple ben-                                                                                 include Xianlin Villa at 470
       efits. It links Changping and                                                                                   Yuyuan Road and Rong鈥檃nfang
       Hengtong roads, shortening travel                                                                               at 496 Huashan Road.
       time in the area. The local envi-
       ronment was also upgraded.

       Sep tember :

       New sports facility

          Jing鈥檃n鈥檚 biggest sports center
       opened on Wenshui Road. Cov-
       ering 61,733 square meters, it
       dwarfs all other sports centers
       in the downtown area.

          The highlight is a 鈥渞ooftop鈥?       football field 13 meters above
       the ground, the first of its kind
       in Shanghai.

          The center also has a 5,600-seat
       multifunction venue, a swim-
       ming pool, two basketball courts,
       two volleyball courts, four tennis
       courts, 16 table tennis courts and
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