People's Square

For other uses, see People's Square (disambiguation).
People's Square
The southwest corner of People's Square seen from the Urban Planning Museum
Simplified Chinese人民广场
Traditional Chinese人民廣場
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinRénmín Guǎngchǎng
Wu
Shanghainese
Romanization		Zenmin Kuånzan
The fountain

People's Square (Chinese: 人民广场) is a large public square in the Huangpu District of Shanghai.[1] It is south of Nanjing Road (West) and north of Huaihai Road (East).

People's Square is the site of Shanghai's municipal government headquarters building and the standard reference point for measurement of distance of almost all highways in the Shanghai municipality is set in the north of the square, near the fountain.[2]

The Shanghai Racecourse in 1912.
A 1933 map of Shanghai, including the racetrack on left in green.
  1. ^ Pitts, Christopher (April 2013). "The Bund & People's Square". Pocket Shanghai (3rd ed.). Lonely Planet. pp. 22–43. ISBN 978-1-74179-963-7.
  2. ^ "高速公路标注"距上海" 究竟距上海什么地方-原点 零公里处 高速公路 1950年 上海出发-上海频道-东方网". sh.eastday.com. Archived from the original on 2015-10-08.