What is New The Playa Maya Water Park will welcome its first visitors in the summer of 2013. Many promotion plans in anticipation for the park's opening are underway.
Shanghai Happy Valley was voted one of the "Outstanding Scenic Spots in 2012" by millions of real travelers on TripAdvisor in China.
In recent days, visitors who came to enjoy the water lilies in the Chenshan Botanical Garden found a bird's nest on a giant water lily pad. It turned out to be a common moorhen’s home, and has quickly become a new eye-catching attraction.
Thayanithi Kulenthra, a lotus fan from Malaysia, visited the Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden with her daughter, Romila Kulenthran, in late July 2012.
London Olympic torch bearer Wu Xingfen was present at the start of the Shanghai Happy Valley torch relay to celebrate the start of the London Olympic Games. She was joined by staff, park fans and media on July 26, 2012.
The Sofitel Shanghai Sheshan Oriental Hotel opened its new outdoor swimming pools to the public at the end of April, after a renovation project that cost more than six million yuan ($941,000) and took five months.
View the World in 3D, the prime time program which airs at 8 pm on Channel CCTV-3D, completed a successful shoot on July 11 in Shanghai's Happy Valley, and will be shown on TV soon.
Chenshan Botanical Garden and the government of Wujin signed an agreement to jointly construct the Nature Pavilion and the Plants Research Center for the Eighth China Flower Exposition. The signing ceremony was held on July 20 in Wujin district, Changzhou city in east China's Jiangsu province.
