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C4鈥?Jing鈥檃n Tuesday 30 January 2018鈥?Shanghai Daily
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Jiangchang River 1 Sihang Warehouse Battle Memorial
Moments 3
of January
Moller Villa
1. Beautifying the banks
3. Landmark buildings listed
Jiangchang River, cleaned in 2014, Dongjiaojing River 4
is now undergoing beautification on its 2 5 Three historical buildings in Jing鈥檃n
banks. were added to the city鈥檚 listing of 20th
century Chinese architectural heritage
In the past four months, walking path- this month.
ways were built and riverside platforms
added. They are the Sihang Warehouse Battle
Memorial, the Paramount ballroom and
Water plants like the purple Siberian the Moller Villa.
iris, green rough horsetail and colorful
iris were planted to thrive in the river. The battle memorial along Suzhou
Dozens of plants cover the riverbanks, Creek was originally built as a storage
including cassia trees, starry-like gypso- facility for banks, but Japanese invad-
phila and white camellias. ers requisitioned it as their military
headquarters during their occupation
Last year, the government removed of Shanghai in World War II. Numerous
illegal structures along the riverfront of bullet holes in the fa莽ade of the building
the whole district. A greenbelt is being were retained during renovation.
built along the Dongjiaojing River. It
contains underground equipment de- The Scandinavian-style Moller Villa,
signed to store and purify rainwater. completed in 1936, harks to a castle out
Above ground, the parkland has become of Hans Christian Andersen鈥檚 fairy tales.
a popular site with local residents. Featuring multicolored tiled Gothic and
Tudor steeples, gables and spires, it was
2. Museum first in Shanghai 2 a gift from British businessman Eric
Moller to his daughter.
Family treasures and collections are on
show at the city鈥檚 first lilong, or neigh- The legendary Paramount ballroom is
borhood lane, museum, which opened famous as the site where Charlie Chaplin
this month in Jing鈥檃n. once danced, 鈥済olden voice鈥?Zhou Xuan
once crooned and movie queen Hu Die
Xiwang Garden Lane Museum is tucked famously got engaged.
away in the century-old Xiwang residen-
tial compound on Fengxian Road. 4. Street-side assistance
Xiwang is a typical old-style Shanghai Anything can happen on the streets. It
lane neighborhood, where Chinese and can suddenly start to rain when you have
Western influences co-mingle. It houses left home without an umbrella. A food
12 Queen Anne-style buildings located delivery man may discover his mobile
on interconnecting lanes. phone battery is dead.
The history is related on information The Linfen Road Community has come
boards and in old photos in the museum. to the rescue. Its commercial commis-
Residents loaned some of the fam- sion built a public services pavilion at
ily treasures to the museum, including the intersection of Linfen and Pingshun
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) waist drums roads, providing free services from rent-
and toys from the 1930s. als to charging gadgets and drinking
water.
It also helps disabled people to sell
handicrafts they make.
5. New 鈥榖ig data鈥?blood
An Amazon Web Services鈥?subsidiary
announced this month that it will build
the Shanghai-Amazon AWS United In-
novation Center in Jing鈥檃n鈥檚 Shibei High
Technology Park, which hosts Shanghai鈥檚
big data center and is a centerpiece of the
鈥渟mart city鈥?project.
Officials said the site will include an
exhibition center and facilities to foster
professional development in big data
and international incubators.
