Shanghai-related content archive.
China's real estate investment fell sharply by 18% year-on-year in the first half of this year, and the real estate market continues to decline.
In the first half of the year, China's fixed asset investment fell 5.7%, and total retail sales of consumer goods barely grew, almost stagnating.
Xi Jinping arrived at Shanghai's Xijiao State Guest House 48 hours in advance to present his governing achievements to CCP elders, facing strong doubts from the elders regarding his policies.
The national symposium of public security department and bureau heads was held in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong attended and emphasized the tune of absolute loyalty. The meeting was arranged and prepared by Hu Binchn, Vice Governor of Jiangsu Province and Director of the Public Security Department.
Reports indicate that around the time Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli were detained, Wang Qishan also lost his freedom and is facing a secret investigation by a central special investigation group headed by Cai Qi.
Xi Jinping traveled to Shanghai to attend the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, prompting high-level security and traffic controls in the area.
A large amount of yellow smoke billowed from the plant area of BASF Polyurethane Co., Ltd. in Shanghai and spread to the surrounding areas, suspected to be an explosion accident.
Employees of Shanghai Zuiqingfeng Health Technology Company revealed that the company sets high-difficulty question-bank assessments as performance indicators to maliciously lay off staff.
An employee submission from Shanghai Gree Auto exposes that the company has a severe excessive overtime issue, and project site managers subject employees to verbal insults and sexual harassment.
On September 17, a female student at Tongji University in Shanghai went to the school infirmary to request a sick note for menstrual pain, but was asked by the school doctor to take off her pants to prove her physical condition. Multiple students from the same school confirmed that this regulation exists. Currently, the relevant posts exposing the incident have been deleted.
On September 15, military media "Navy News" disclosed satellite images showing that Shanghai Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard is building a vessel suspected to be the world's first unmanned submarine mother ship, which features a dock, lift cradle and hangar, and is estimated to be able to carry about four large unmanned submarines.
An employee of the milk tea shop “Yidian Dian” discovered a foreign object in the black tea, reported it to quality control and was instructed to remove it and continue using it. The employee later applied for arbitration due to an irregular labor contract, and the company sent someone to his grandparents’ home to threaten them in order to force him to give up defending his rights.
On September 5, a screenshot showing that security personnel for the Shanghai China GT Chinese Supercar Championship earned only 60 yuan per day attracted public attention. Netizens used this incident to discuss how labor dispatch and multiple layers of outsourcing lead to mismatched compensation and risk, pointing out that systemic exploitation of the grassroots can cause a loss of society's ability to respond to crises.
On September 14, 2026, the blogger filmed a nighttime on-site scene in a multi-story office building in Shanghai and found large areas of vacancy on some floors, with corridor lights still on and no one inside the offices. The video shows that the brightly lit exterior of the building actually contains mostly public corridors, while the actual office areas are empty. Data released by several real‑estate consulting firms for the second quarter of 2026 state that the overall vacancy rate of Grade‑A office buildings in Shanghai is between 22% and 23.5%. A JLL report shows the overall vacancy rate of Shanghai Grade‑A office towers at 23.5%, with 19.3% in the Central Business District and 27.1% outside it, meaning that for every four square metres, more than one square metre is vacant. This phenomenon reveals a supply‑greater‑than‑demand situation in Shanghai's office‑building market.
The first skills enhancement class for college students at Hefei Technician College officially began on September 11, 2026, with 15 students in the first cohort for a two-year training period. The curriculum mainly covers skills such as CNC machining and intelligent manufacturing. The students include both bachelor's and associate degree graduates, primarily from liberal arts backgrounds. The program provides skills training for college graduates, some of whom have chosen to re-enter the vocational education system due to employment difficulties.