Taxi

there are about 50.000 taxies in shanghai most of which are santana. the largest taxi companies in shanghai are volks wagen (lake blue), qiang sheng(yellow), johnson(white), bus(green)and hai bo(blue).

the price is shown in the following chart:
 

1. travelers can bargain down the price during the night and can share a taxi together for several people.
2. if there is a waiting time, the driver will charge you as one meter's cost for each five minutes.
3. the taxi booking and complaining telephone number.

Public Bus

public bus

there are more than 1,000 bus lines in shanghai city and about 50 bus lines are being opened, adjusted or lengthened every year.

• grouped by time, there are daytime buses, the rush hour buses in the morning and afternoon headed with 2 of the license number and the night buses headed with 3.
• classified by area, there are western pu river area, eastern pu river area, around the pu river (bridge and tunnel), and the suburban area.
• grouped by ticket, there are no-conductor buses with one yuan ticket (within 13 km) or 1.5yuan ticket (more than 13 km), air-conditioned buses with 2yuan ticket and special lined buses with multiple tickets.
   

the main transit centers in the city are shanghai station, people's square, xu jiahui area, zhong shan park and the five-pointed square.

1. people can design the bus lines with computers.
   details are in shanghai traffic: www.jt.sh.ch and city traffic: www.chinaquest.com
2. 2. the bus ticket in shanghai:
   ① no-conductor buses.
   there are 1yuan and 1.5yuan tickets. the buses with double digit and three digit numbers which begins with 1 or 2 or 7 are mostly go without conductor. passengers should prepare the changes. people can also buy commutation tickets. the ticket can not return if it is sold.
   ② diversified-ticket buses:
   the special-lined buses with the first number of 5; special-lined buses to the new arrears of pu dong; the minibus lines with the first number of 8; the double-layered buses or air-conditioned buses with the first number of 9; many other air-conditioned tourism buses; the sightseeing buses.

Shanghai Railway Station

The hu ning (between shanghai and ningbo) and the hu hang (between shanghai and hangzhou) railways lead shanghai to the other places of china. there are shanghai station (locally called the new station), the west station in shanghai (the former zhen ru station) and shanghai south station(the former new long hua station) among which shanghai station to be the main station with 70 couples of trains coming from and going to the big and middle cities in china. in the west station, there are departure trains to yan tai and zao zhuang (in shan dong province), gan zhou (in jiang xi province), cheng du (in si chuan) and 8 couples of passing trains as well as the rail line from shanghai to zhang jia jie (a tourism place in hu nan province) directly. at the south station, there are 11 couples of arriving trains and departure trains between shanghai and hangzhou, jiashan and the gold mountain.

Shanghai Station

the layout of the main hall of the shanghai station is "two doors in south and north, elevated railway". the station is modern with a set of advanced guiding system for travelers, together with 16 air-conditioned rooms and 7 auto staircase. there are north square and south square around the station with "the first south exit", "the second south exit" and "the north exit" as well as a passage to the subway. the bus stations near the square are available.
address: no.303 mo ling road
kind reminder: travelers can get to the shanghai station by taking bus no. 13,41,63,95,104,106,109,114,115,17,902,903,904,906,502,506,507,508,598, 3 tunnels, no.302,305,306,308,310,315,322,324,328,329 subway at night. besides, there is also a green passage for short distance travelers to buy tickets and take the train which is in service for24 hours with special waiting room and entrance to the platform and also special people who lead you to the train 10 minutes ahead of time.

The Meilong Station in Shanghai

the meilong station is a bus-liked station in shanghai with four scheduled trains to hang zhou. the travelers are allowed to buy ticket after getting on the train and reach the east station in hang zhou in one hour. in convenience of the travelers, the meilong station is connected directly with no1 subway.
address: mei long, shanghai
kind reminder: the travelers should first go to jinjiang merryland station by no.1 subway.

shanghai West Station

some trains from shanghai to baotou (in nei meng gu province), qi qi haer (in ha er bin province), yan tai (in shandong province), changchun (in ji lin province), hengyang (in hunan province) and some trains to guangzhou (in guangdong province), ningbo (in zhejiang province) and the west station of nanjing (in jiangsu province) will depart from here.
address: no1 tao pu road.
kind reminder: travelers can reach there by bus no.106, 129.

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Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport

located in the west of shanghai, 13kms form the city center. the rainbow bridge airport has been considered as the port of shanghai airport flights for years.  since 1996, it has got several first prizes in the activities like "the civil aviation in the travelers' eyes" organized by the civil aviation department. it treats 8 million passenger per year. with an area of 820,000 square meters, the waiting room of the airport consists of 15 waiting halls, 18 vip waiting halls and 15 luggage transmission system. at present, the aircraft movement of the rainbow bridge airport is about 540 per day with greater safety. a waiting building and b waiting building are connected closely to each other. as an important service window, the large waiting hall has the function of being in charge of the arriving and departing the travelers as well as landing the flights, ensuring the safety of airport production and ground service, guaranteeing the right time of the flights.

the consulting desks of the waiting building:
a building: the comprehensive consulting desk at the center of the waiting hall including the air service, eastern air com, and shanghai air com. 
b building: the eastern air com, consultation in the north of the waiting hall.

the warm servers with red hats: 
offering service for travelers who are over 70 years old, pregnant, limb disabled. the travelers make an application at the special counter named "warm passage accompanying your traveling" in the waiting hall. the members of the warm service group with red hats and identified cards will come to help till the travelers enter into the plane.
opening time: from the first departure flight to the time when the ticket selling of the last departure flight finishes.

the handcart service of the red hat:
carrying luggage for travelers with free handcart.
charge standard: 10 rmb for carrying one handcart of luggage. for group luggage, 3rmb for each if there are more than ten of the luggage.
 

handling counters for missing the plane:  no22 desk, the eastern air company
consulting phone for the flights: 021-62683659   021-62688918

Shanghai Pudong International Airport

with an area of 40 square kilometers, pudong interdomestic airport is in the eastern part of shanghai, 30km from the center of the city and 40km from the rainbow bridge airport. after the finish of the first-step reform project, the pudong airport will be of the capacity of 300,000 aircraft handling and treat 36,500,000 passengers which can satisfy the need before the second waiting room was put into use in 2008.

at present, the pudong airport has the flight of 560 per day which accounts for about 60% of the whole shanghai airport. there are 48 airliners home and abroad establishing connection with pudong airport and the flying lines cover 73 interdomestic cities and areas and 62 cities in china. there are flights directly to l.s, new york, san francisco, seattle, ankh, rich, fukuoka, nagasaki, nagoya, osaka, tokyo, bangkok, brussels, frankfurt, madrid, paris, singapore, kasha, rome and other big cities. besides, there are also district ional flights from shanghai to hong kong and macaw.

consulting desk of the waiting building

no3 and no 4 exit of the domestic departure flights.
no 12 exit of the interdomestic departure flight.

the comprehensive consultant ddesk

on the opposite of the domestic safety check station; on the opposite of the interdomestic safety check station.

the first-class cabins are available in the airport and the servers there will offer the details.

luggage deposition

opening time the domestic arriving flight: 6:00.am-the last flight. the interdomestic arriving flight: 6:00.am-the last flight. the domestic departure flight: 8:30-20:30. the interdomestic departure flight: 6:00-the last flight
relevant rules travelers should deposit the luggage with the air tickets and valid certificates like the id card, passport and the offer certificate.

the transfer place

address of the transfer desk: the luggage rotary between 5# and 6# in the restricted area.

address of the ticket office

consultant telephones of the flight: 021-96081388 021-38484500

By waterway

located in the center of the north and south coast line of china, shanghai is the biggest port city in china and the third largest port in the world. the steamers there are connected with more than 400 ports in the world. because of the speed, the steamer business is not quite brilliant with only some of them running like the steamer to dalian, shen yang at the interval of 4 days from the fair road dock while the other long distance shipping along the coastline have been stopped. there are scheduled steamers to near places like nan tong, ding hai and pu tuo at sixteenth pu wharf. if you want to go to zhou shan islands, you should first take a bus at sixteenth pu and to lu chao port or gold mountain port to board a steamer. travelers going to chang xing island and hengsha island should board the steamer at wusong dock. make the boarding place clear before going to chong ming island. besides, travelers who want to inchon and pusan in korea or osaka and kobe in japan would board the interdomestic steamer at the out rainbow wharf.

City Transport

public bus

there are more than 1,000 bus lines in shanghai city and about 50 bus lines are being opened, adjusted or lengthened every year.

• grouped by time, there are daytime buses, the rush hour buses in the morning and afternoon headed with 2 of the license number and the night buses headed with 3.
• classified by area, there are western pu river area, eastern pu river area, around the pu river (bridge and tunnel), and the suburban area.
• grouped by ticket, there are no-conductor buses with one yuan ticket (within 13 km) or 1.5yuan ticket (more than 13 km), air-conditioned buses with 2yuan ticket and special lined buses with multiple tickets.
   

the main transit centers in the city are shanghai station, people’s square, xu jiahui area, zhong shan park and the five-pointed square.

1. people can design the bus lines with computers.
   details are in shanghai traffic: www.jt.sh.ch and city traffic: www.chinaquest.com
2. 2. the bus ticket in shanghai:
   ① no-conductor buses.
   there are 1yuan and 1.5yuan tickets. the buses with double digit and three digit numbers which begins with 1 or 2 or 7 are mostly go without conductor. passengers should prepare the changes. people can also buy commutation tickets. the ticket can not return if it is sold.
   ② diversified-ticket buses:
   the special-lined buses with the first number of 5; special-lined buses to the new arrears of pu dong; the minibus lines with the first number of 8; the double-layered buses or air-conditioned buses with the first number of 9; many other air-conditioned tourism buses; the sightseeing buses.

taxi

there are about 50.000 taxies in shanghai most of which are santana. the largest taxi companies in shanghai are volks wagen (lake blue), qiang sheng(yellow), johnson(white), bus(green)and hai bo(blue).

the price is shown in the following chart: 
 

Shanghai maglev train

the demonstration line of the maglev train is the important project of the shanghai traffic development during the tenth five-year development period of the nation and is also the first maglev train used in business in the world with the function of transporting, displaying, tourism and sightseeing. the magnetic suspension train is from long yang stop of the no.2 subway in the west to pu dong international airport in the east which eased the heavy traffic between the city and pudong airport. the whole line was 30km long, including the upper departing line and the lower arriving line with the speed of 430km/h. it will cost us 8 minutes for a single line. since march, 29th, 2004, the magnetic suspension train has adjusted the running time. in former time, the train works half a day during work time and a whole day at weekend. nowadays, it opens from 8:30am to 5:30 pm everyday at the interval of 20 minutes with 54 schedules in total.

in order to embody the advantage of the magnetic suspension train, the department has taken some measures like the passengers are entitled to a 80% discount of the single train ticket by showing the air ticket of that day that is 40 yuan for an ordinary ticket and 80yuan for the vip ticket. meanwhile, accompanied by adults, children who are less than 1.2 meters are free. the ticket is valid that day and other times invalid. travelers should get the tickets examined 20 minutes ahead of the time printed on the ticket s the examination would stop 5 minutes before the maglev train starting.

address: the magnetic suspension station, long yang road.
ticket price:

Public Bus

there are more than 1,000 bus lines in shanghai city and about 50 bus lines are being opened, adjusted or lengthened every year.

• grouped by time, there are daytime buses, the rush hour buses in the morning and afternoon headed with 2 of the license number and the night buses headed with 3.
• classified by area, there are western pu river area, eastern pu river area, around the pu river (bridge and tunnel), and the suburban area.
• grouped by ticket, there are no-conductor buses with one yuan ticket (within 13 km) or 1.5yuan ticket (more than 13 km), air-conditioned buses with 2yuan ticket and special lined buses with multiple tickets.

Taxi

there are about 50.000 taxies in shanghai most of which are santana. the largest taxi companies in shanghai are volks wagen (lake blue), qiang sheng(yellow), johnson(white), bus(green)and hai bo(blue).

Shanghai Maglev Train

the demonstration line of the maglev train is the important project of the shanghai traffic development during the tenth five-year development period of the nation and is also the first maglev train used in business in the world with the function of transporting, displaying, tourism and sightseeing. the magnetic suspension train is from long yang stop of the no.2 subway in the west to pu dong international airport in the east which eased the heavy traffic between the city and pudong airport. the whole line was 30km long, including the upper departing line and the lower arriving line with the speed of 430km/h. it will cost us 8 minutes for a single line. since march, 29th, 2004, the magnetic suspension train has adjusted the running time. in former time, the train works half a day during work time and a whole day at weekend. nowadays, it opens from 8:30am to 5:30 pm everyday at the interval of 20 minutes with 54 schedules in total.

By highway

the main highways in shanghai are as follows:

1. the three national roads line 312(from shanghai to yi ning, xin jiang), line 318(from shanghai to zhangmu, tibet) and line 320 (from shanghai to ruili, yunnan) lead to the western part of china.
2. the national road 204(tongjiang, hei longjiang-san ya, hai nan) which passing shanghai goes through most of the beautiful cities along the coastline of eastern china.
3. the hu ning (a11 road), hu hang (a8 road), hu jialiu (a12 road), hu qingping (a9 road) connected the main cities around shanghai.

kind reminder: so many long distance bus stations in shanghai help a lot for those who go to jiangsu, zhejiang areas and the bus tickets are available ahead of time within three days.
the address of the main long distance bus station:
no.1662 zhong xing road. (the north square of shanghai station)
tel: 021-66051111 021-66050000