Monday 25 November 2013 Vol.003 No.028 http://www.xuhuibao.com /Tel: 6487-2222 ext 1582/Fax: 6487-3826/E-mail: [email protected]/Address: Rm 703, 336 Caoxi Road N. Shanghai Xuhui Latest Xujiahui Commercial Circle doubles Contemporary artist Feng Zikai's works exhibited on Metro revenue on Singles’ Day Artwork of Chinese contem- porary artist Feng Zikai is seen on a Metro Line 11 train to mark the 115th birthday of the late painter, writer and teacher of music. The works being displayed include car- toon paintings and poems teaching people to love life and create a more civilized living environment. They are exhibited on the inside walls and hand-strap signboards of the train. Three more minutes from Line 9 to Line 1 Subway passengers have to take a new detour when trans- ferring from Line 9 to Line 1 at Xujiahui Station after construction began on Nov. Overlooking Xujiahui from the rooftop of the Grand Gateway. — photo by Lei Ming 16th, requiring an extra three minutes. Guan Xin and Xu Xiaohong shopping malls in Xujiahui took mall, but to attract more custom- Authorities think that Xujiahui The West Bund a step to try promoting sales by ers to Xujiahui and enhance our Business Circle must be up- he Xujiahui Commer- Architecture and moderate discounts. Together, brand popularity.” graded and adjust its developing cial Circle won itself Contemporary Art the brick-and-mortar malls, in- Singles’ Day falls on Novem- mode to realize transformation. a fairly good share of cluding Pacific Mall, Shanghai ber 11th, or 11/11, and is also According to the development Biennial 2013 on profits on Singles’ Day Liubai and Huijin Mall, gener- known as “Double 11”, has be- plan, a street culture center will Tthis year, with its online and of- The West Bund Architecture fline sales revenue doubling that ated sales of nearly 9 million come an anti-Valentines Day as be built in the metro station, the and Contemporary Art Bien- of the previous year’s. This is CNY (1.46 million USD), which well as the biggest online shop- Metro City Star Theater began nial 2013 is ongoing at the the very first Singles’ Day shop- is three-times the average. ping festival in the world. The its reconstruction this month and waterfront of Xuhui District. ping spree that the company has The online mall welcomed main creator of this shopping will be finished next October. With the theme of Reflecta and participated in after it launched their first customers at 12:00 am, festival, Alibaba, sees online The star theater, together with Fabrica, the biennale covers its own e-Commerce section last receiving over 3,000 transac- deals top 30 billion CNY on that Kodak Theater and the bookstore artistic forms including archi- tecture, contemporary art as year. tions within the first three hours. single day thanks to aggressive Popular Holdings constitute a well as theatre, incorporating “We held both online and Though the scale is not quite as marketing campaigns on social cultural vibe for the commercial tools such as sound, video, large as the E-commerce giants, networking websites. circle. “Only comprehensive offline sales promotions on Sin- space, devices, performance, the results are still exciting. “We But the traditional retail in- shopping malls can meet cus- gles’ Day, and although it was and many more. Making use our first time and discounts were see a bright future from this dustry is indeed showing signs tomers’ need for cuisine, culture of the West Bank, it aims at not dramatic, we still think the trial. Among all the buyers, only of slumping. During last year’s and other leisure entertainment, forging an international fore- results turned out to be very sat- 16.9% were local, which means Golden Week, shopping malls which can bring back return front for cross-domain art, isfying,” said Zong Peng, Vice we had an impact around China, achieved only 340 million CNY customers, and keep them away creating a high-end platform President of the online mall. which is one of our goals — not in revenue, down 0.8% from the from facing a computer,” said a for urban culture and build- On the special Monday the to earn a lot through the online previous year. staff in the industry. ing the largest outdoor art museum in the new century. Xuhui District now has an official WeChat account. Come and buy some tangerines at the Botanical Garden Scan the QR code below to follow us for the Guan Xin Management Bureau in order to Garden. Last year, the market other cities, which further de- latest in local news and help the farmers out, giving them saw severe challenges because of creases the profits,” said Wang information. Six o’clock in the morning of an opportunity to sell their prod- the over-planting of tangerines, Xiumin, a local expert in the Nov 19th, the Shanghai Botani- cal Garden launched this year’s uct directly to the public, straight resulting in a low market price. field of planting fruits. special sale of tangerines, with from the farm. The event will last Tangerine planting occupies The city plant office estimates tangerines being sold at 2 CNY for another 30 days by the #3 one-third of all land meant for that less than 40% are consumed per kilogram instead of its stan- gate of the Botanical Garden, planting fruit in Shanghai. “The by the local market, making it dard market price of around 4 with all of the products coming city has about 106,000 acres of the least-profitable local fruit, CNY per kilogram. from Dahe Vegetables and Fruit land in total to plant tangerine and outside of assistance from It is said that due to bad Cooperative in Nanhui of the trees, mainly in Chongming and the government, the tangerine weather, the tangerine market Pudong New Area. Pudong. However, the local land industry in Shanghai will need faces a challenge, so this spe- This farm-to-hand tanger- and climate is not ideal for this to find a way to transform its cial sale was organized by the ine sale is actually the third of fruit, which leads to a high cost. production and selling methods Greening and City Appearance its kind held by the Botanical Most of the products are sold to in order to maintain profits. .