General Information of Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city and financial centre of China. It is located on the East China coast. Total land area is 6,340.5 square kilometers. The city's Chongming Island is the third largest island in China, covering an area of 1,041 square kilometers. The total population is around 15 million, of which around eight million living in the downtown area. The population of foreign guest roughly reach to 70,000.

Travel in Shanghai
Shanghai has good transportation and communications links. Public transportation methods including two subways that is metro line 1, 2 and one skytrain peal line. And more lines still under construction. And bus covers whole downtown area of the city. Texi is more convenient and most of the drivers can understand English. You could find the information on transportation in map of Shanghai.

Language
Official language is Chinese. Most of the young people and texi drivers can understand English. Shanghai also has its own distinctive dialect, different from Mandarin.

Climate and Weather
With a pleasant northern subtropical maritime monsoon climate, Shanghai enjoys four distinct seasons, generous sunshine and abundant rainfall every year. Annual rainfall is 1,302 millimeters with increased rainfall from May to September. Normally, July and August is in the hot season. Below you could find the mean temperature of July and August in Shanghai. You can also get the latest information about the weather of shanghai by referring to: http://www.worldweather.org/001/c00240.htm