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1. Making way for bridge
Some residents living in old houses
along Changping Road started to move
out earlier this month to make way for a
new bridge crossing Suzhou Creek.
The district government said the
bridge has multiple benefits. For resi-
dents moving to new apartment blocks,
it will mean an end to cramped living
conditions and shared kitchens and
toilets. For local residents, it will mean
shortened travel time across the creek.
On August 1, the first 10 families
boarded trucks loaded with their fur-
niture and belongings and set off for
new homes in Minhang, Songjiang and
Jiading districts.
Under the plan, 541 families will be
relocated and 18,000 square meters of
old housing demolished.
So far, more than 99 percent of resi-
dents have agreed to relocation plans,
according to Zhou Pengfei, an official of
the Jiangning Road Community.
One of them is Liu Xiaojiu, 82.
He is leaving a 9.8-square-meter room,
without toilet or kitchen. He was happy
to leave his current quarters but reluc-
tant to move far away. So he decided
to accept compensation and relocation
fees instead of a new apartment in the
suburbs.
With the help of community officials,
he bought a 38-square-meter unit in a
20-year-old building not far away.
鈥淚t鈥檚 about three times larger than my
old unit, and I have my own kitchen and
bathroom,鈥?he said.
Construction of the 853-meter bridge
will begin after demolition work is com-
pleted. The span will link Changping
and Hengtong roads.
2. Night at the library
Jing鈥檃n Children鈥檚 Library offers a short
getaway for children. In an overnight
camp at the library, youngsters bunk
down surrounded by plenty of bedtime
reading. Staff tell the children stories
and explain things like the history of
Chin颅 ese characters and the evolution of
paper-making.
3. Light look at Jing鈥檃n
Folk and comic artist Luo Xixian dis-
played manuscripts of his new book to
the public for the first time this month
at the Sisyphe Bookstore in Joy City.
The book, which covers the vicissi-
tudes of life along Suzhou Creek, will
be formally released in October.
Luo said it will be the first of the five
works paying tribute to Jing鈥檃n, where
he was born, grew up and now lives.
Future works will look at historical fig-
ures, the Communist Party鈥檚 footprints,
cultural facets and distinctive buildings
in Jing鈥檃n.
4. Foreigners visit pharmacy
For foreigners, traditional Chinese
medicine is often a mysterious, even
forbidding part of the nation鈥檚 culture.
The 300-year-old Leiyunshang phar-
macy is trying to shed some light on the
practice by welcoming foreign visitors.
This summer, more than 80 students
from Singapore and the US visited the
pharmacy鈥檚 flagship store near Jing鈥檃n
Temple. They were told about the basic
elements of traditional medicine and
introduced to the herbs and other ingre-
dients used in its treatments. They even
got to make their own herbal sachets.
Tuesday 29 August 2017鈥?Shanghai Daily
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What鈥檚 on
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1 The 4th annual PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai
2 will open next month at the Shanghai Ex-
hibition Center, featuring photographs
from 14 countries and regions.
PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai is a promi-
nent event on the Asia-Pacific calendar,
specializing in cutting-edge modern
photography.
Works by top Chinese artists like Zeng
Fanzhi and Zhang Hai鈥檈r will be exhib-
ited, along with new Chinese talent like
Fan Xi and Peng Yun. Robert Mappletho-
rpe and Henri Cartier Bresson will be
among the international photographers
with works on display.
This year鈥檚 fair will explore the re-
lationship between photography and
other art forms. Another highlight is
the public debut of works held by pri-
vate collectors, including photographs
by Wolfgang Tillmans, Cindy Sherman
and Araki Nobuyoshi.
The exhibition will be held from Sep-
tember 8-10. Tickets and other details
are available on the official website at
www.photofairs.org.
2. LOOK Smithsonian
The photo exhibition LOOK Smithso-
nian will make its China debut at Jing鈥檃n
Sculpture Park next month.
It will feature more than 120 winning
entries in a photo contest held by the
US-based Smithsonian Institution, the
171-year-old group of museums and re-
search centers.
Among the works is 鈥淐hina Red鈥?by
Chinese photographer Wang Jian. The
photo, taken with a mobile phone, cap-
5 tures a woman in a red skirt with an
umbrella walking in front of a shadowed
red wall.
The photographs will be on display
from September 12 to November 26. The
admission fee is 78 yuan (US$11.7).
5. Loans to start-ups
Start-ups generally don鈥檛 lack initia-
tive but they usually lack resources and
funding.
In Jing鈥檃n, the resources hurdle is an-
swered by a cluster of co-working spaces
and incubators, like the renowned We-
Work and People Squared.
Money is another matter. This month,
a government-backed loan company was
set up to help finance technology start-
ups based in Shanghai. It is the first of
its kind in the city.
6. New shopping mall
A new shopping mall will open next
month on Hengtong Road, aiming to fill
a retail gap along Suzhou Creek.
The mall, almost equal in area to 2.5
standard football fields, will feature a
supermarket, fashion brand outlets, pop-
ular eateries and children鈥檚 play areas. It
is accessible on Metro lines 1, 12 and 13.
The project, part of a commercial project
by CapitaLand, also includes an office
building and four riverside residential
apartment buildings.