What is New Chen Sanxia, an estate agent in Xintiandi, one of Shanghai's luxury home clusters, sold five apartments in the first half of 2012. The total price of these deals was more than 30 million yuan ($4.7 million), but Chen said it could not compare with the first half of 2011.
A signing ceremony was held to celebrate a Memorandum of Cooperation between Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden and the United States Longwood Gardens in Chenshan Botanical Garden on Sept 20.
A 600-million-yuan ($95.45 million) water park, Playa Maya, is scheduled to open to tourists in western Shanghai on May 1 next year.
In a bid to attract tourists, Chenshan Botanical Garden in Shanghai built a lotus-leaf ship. The ship was created using the large leaves of giant water lilies. Chenshan held an activity to place babies on the "ship".
The eighth Forest Tourism Festival of Sheshan National Forest Park will be held from Sept 22 to Oct 7 and will consist of the 10th Songjiang "Shanghai Root" Culture Tourism Festival.
An exhibition of Moon Lake photographs began at the Art Gallery of Shanghai Moon Lake Sculpture Park on Sept 18. Many experts and media attended the exhibition launching ceremony.
Hong Kong crushed host China 40-10 to win the Shanghai Sevens on Sunday to underline its growing status as one of the top teams in Asia.
Scorching tennis hits China every October, but it's not all about the world elite slugging it out in Beijing and Shanghai.
