2026

If you have spent any time in Shanghai, you have heard the name. Ju Fu Chang (巨富长). It rolls off the tongue. It appears in every Citywalk guide. It is mentioned in conversations about where to live, where to eat, and where to find the city's most authentic street life. But what exactly is Ju Fu Chang? The name is a shorthand. It refers to three parallel streets in the heart of the...

Somewhere around your second month in Shanghai, a colleague will mention their ayi. Then you'll notice everyone has one — the single guy in the Jing'an loft, the family in the Pudong villa, your most frugal teacher friend. And you'll ask the question every newcomer asks: should I get an ayi, and how does this actually work? Short answers: probably yes, and much more easily than you think. Here's the...

We're a Puxi agency — Old Xuhui, Jing'an, Changning, that's home. But one Pudong name keeps coming up in client conversations year after year: Shimao Riviera Garden (世茂滨江花园). Relocating families hear about it from colleagues; finance arrivals want river views near Lujiazui; and renters comparing both sides of the river ask us, honestly, how it stacks up. So here's the honest, Puxi-eyed...

Shanghai's skyline exists to be drunk in front of. Two skylines, technically — the 1920s stone Bund on one bank, the neon supertalls of Lujiazui on the other — and a whole industry of rooftops built around the view between them. But the rooftop scene turned over hard in recent years, and half the internet's recommendations now lead to closed doors. So here's the 2026 state of play — what's gone,...

At some point in your Shanghai apartment hunt, a PDF lands in your WeChat: ten-plus pages, Chinese on the left, English on the right, and a landlord who would quite like it signed by Thursday. Most tenants skim it, check the rent figure, and sign. Most of the time, nothing goes wrong. But every clause in that contract exists because at some point, for someone, something did go wrong — and the...

You've landed in Shanghai, picked up your keys, and collapsed onto your new sofa. Congratulations — but before you unpack a single box, there's one piece of paperwork the law expects from you within 24 hours: temporary residence registration (临时住宿登记, línshí zhùsù dēngjì). It sounds more intimidating than it is. The good news: in Shanghai, you can now do the whole thing online in...

If you have spent any time in Shanghai, you have noticed them. Blue bikes. Yellow bikes. Green bikes. Parked neatly in designated zones near metro stations, office buildings, and residential compounds. Shared bikes have become an essential part of daily life in Shanghai. For the 1-3 kilometer trip where walking is too far and taking a taxi feels excessive, they are often the best option. Since the...

Ladoll International City sits on Beijing West Road, just steps from Jing'an Sculpture Park and one block from Nanjing West Road and HKRI Taikoo Hui . The location is about as central as it gets. You are a five-minute walk from the metro and five to ten minutes from the heart of the Nanjing West Road commercial area . What sets Ladoll apart from other Jing'an compounds is the greenery. There...

Let us start with a confession. When the Oriental Pearl Tower was first proposed, many people thought it would never work. The design was too strange. The location was too remote. The construction was too difficult. Thirty years later, it is impossible to imagine Shanghai without it. Here is everything you need to know about the tower that changed Pudong forever – from its unlikely birth to what...

Top of City sits on Weihai Road in the heart of Jing'an, between People's Square and Nanjing West Road. It is one of the few compounds in central Shanghai built around a large man-made lake. The 8,000 sqm ecological lake and 26,000 sqm lakefront gardens give it a park-like feel that most downtown developments cannot match . The compound was completed in 2005 by Shanghai Zhongkai Real Estate. It...