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In this article the author introduces the Hotline for Mental Health in Shanghai. According to the experience gained over the past 2 years, most of the 8214 callers were having difficulties in interpersonal relationships, often in relation to lovers and partners. Love affairs were the main reason for telephone consultation among the unmarried callers (51%), while marital disputes and family problems were the most common reason for married callers (57%). Some people who suffered from mental disorders made calls asking for help in management or social support. These calls included rehabilitation of psychoses (3.5%), sleep disturbance (3.2%), and suicidal ideation (2.2%). The author suggests that such a hotline service can be a simple and practicable crisis intervention approach for suicide prevention in Shanghai.

Shanghai was designed as the center of marine shipping in China. Shanghai is located at east of China and on the verge of the East China Sea. In addition, The Yangzi River and Qiantang River are surrounding the city and access to the sea here. The Huangpu River crosses the city center and has been called the mother river of Shanghai. Lots of ports and terminals were operating on the river. After near 30 years fast development, Shanghai has become largest port in China. Since 2000, the major ports and terminals on Huangpu River had been required to move to farther places because of the development and the increased value of the land in the city center. The governments of China and Shanghai tried to build the largest shipping center in shanghai. In 2005, the capability of the cargo traffic stagnated. The demand of more ports and terminals were showed. Unfortunately, due to the limitation of the geometry of the city and surround area, it was not possible to build the ports to fit the requirements of the large containers vessels and tanker vessels. In 2002, a new port project, Yangshan island Deep Water port were launched. Actually, Yangshan Island is not geographically located in Shanghai. The island is around 30 km from the closest spot of Shanghai. Obviously, the transportation from the island and Shanghai was one of the major problems. In addition, in order to increase the capability of the marine shipping traffic, the port was design to host the huge shipping, i.e. 200,000 tones tankers and 10,000 TEU container ships. Currently, the initial three phase construction project has been completed. In 2008, Shanghai successfully became the largest marine shipping center of the world. A 32.5 km bridge was built on the sea to connect Shanghai and Yangshan Island.

Traffic congestion and transit service deterioration are becoming acute problems in China's major cities. Based on a case study of Shanghai, this paper examines the growing gap between the supply of urban transportation facilities and the demand for travel, and discusses the planning implications. Because it will take great amounts of time and resources to transform the municipal transportation infrastructure into one suitable for high level mobility and motorization, the supply side is constrained for the short term. Therefore, planning research is directed primarily to the demand side. Transportation surveys indicate that travel demand has been increasing explosively through a combination of more trips, longer trips, and mode shifts away from walk and transit. Population growth, growth of family income, urban expansion and spatial reconfiguration, the emergence of labor and housing markets, and motorization are identified as the main causal factors. The probable future effects of these factors are analyzed and policy options are explored. The paper argues that enhancing accessibility without inducing mobility should be a basic guideline for policy‐making and urban planning. Given the fast pace of urban development and the important role of the municipal government in locating urban activities, land‐use planning can be a highly effective means for improving accessibility. Specific land‐use strategies and complementary policies are proposed. Since Shanghai is in some important ways representative of large metropolises in the developing world, the case study is potentially valuable for other cities as well.Les embouteillages et la détérioration des services de transport deviennent des problèmes graves dans les villes importantes de Chine. Basé sur une étude de cas de Shangaïı, cet article examine le décalage grandissant entre la demande et la provision des moyens de transport, et discute les implications pour la planification. La transformation de l'infrastructure des transports municipaux afin qu'elle se prête à la mobilité et motorisation de haut niveau demandera un temps et des ressources considérables, et conséquemment l'approvisionnement est limité dans l'immédiat. La recherche sur la planification se concentre donc principalement sur la demande. Les sondages sur les transports indiquent que la demande de transport a beaucoup augmentéà cause d'une conjonction de trajets plus longs et plus nombreux, et de la baisse de la marche à pied et du transit. L'expansion de la population, l'augmentation des revenus familiaux, la croissance urbaine et la reconfiguration spatiale, l'apparition des marchés du travail et du logement, ainsi que la motorisation, sont identifiées comme les causes principales. Les résultats vraisemblables de ces facteurs pour le futur sont analysés et les options politiques sont explorées. Cet article soutient que l'amélioration de l'accessibilité sans inciter la mobilité devrait être une directive fondamentale pour les décisions politiques et pour la planification urbaine. Etant donné la rapidité du développement urbain et le rôle important de la municipalité dans l'établissement d'activités urbaines, la planification de l'aménagement du territoire peut être une méthode très efficace pour améliorer l'accessibilité. Des stratégies spécifiques d'aménagement du territoire et des directives complémentaires sont proposées. Parceque Shangaï est, à beaucoup d'égards, typique des grandes métropoles du monde en voie de développement, cette étude de cas est potentiellement intéressante pour d'autres villes.

ABSTRACT Today rapidly growing economies depend more on the creation, acquisition, distribution, and use of knowledge. As such, strategies for enhancing research and innovation capabilities have come to occupy a more important position in many developing nations, including China. Already the leading production center, and often seen as China's economic locomotive, Shanghai is striving aggressively to retain its national preeminence and has launched concerted efforts to increase local innovative output. The primary purpose of this paper is to understand how state‐led efforts have fared in promoting technology innovation. By situating the city in the national and global context, the paper shows that Shanghai has gained a substantial lead in developing an innovation environment with extensive global linkages and leading research institutions. Recent efforts in building up the research and innovation capacity of the enterprise sector have begun to show progress. Although firms are enthusiastic about its future as an innovation center, Shanghai continues to face challenges of inadequate protection of intellectual property, lack of venture capital investment, and the tightening supply of highly qualified knowledge workers.