Social Undertakings
1.Education
There are 166 public education institutions in Jing’an, including 46 middle schools (including K9), 41 primary schools, 58 kindergartens, and 21 other public institutions (one spare-time college, one higher vocational school, two secondary vocational schools, four special education schools, one education college, two off-campus education institutions, and 10 other institutions). Jing’an District has seven Shanghai experimental demonstration senior high schools, nine Shanghai demonstration kindergartens, as well as one education area, 13 education groups, and eight new quality project schools at the stage of compulsory education. There are 10,000+ teaching staffs and 90,000+ students. In particular, the brands such as Success Education, Tea House Education, Happy Education, Creative Education, Low-structure Activity Exploration, Game-based Education and Community Education enjoy high reputation nationwide. There are nine “First Prize of National Teaching Achievement in Basic Education”, two model teachers, 40 teachers with senior title in primary and secondary schools, and 10+ “Shanghai Teaching and Education Models” (including nominated ones). Jing’an District has won many honors such as “National Childhood Education Advanced District”, “National Double Basic Education Advanced District”, “National Special Education Advanced District”, “National Model District in Community Education”, “National Activity Curriculum Teaching Experimental District” and “National Information Technology Education Experimental District”. Jing’an has been striving to build high-quality education agglomeration area, high-end school brand cluster and future education demonstration area in the spirit of education internationalization and modernization.
2. Technical Innovation
Jing’an steadily advances technical innovation, facilitating the building of Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center. It actively explores new paths for innovation and development in the urban centers, with a focus on the agglomeration and cultivation of key players. It strives to foster data-based intelligence industry clusters by integrating big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and block-chain technology. While further optimizing the environment for innovation and entrepreneurship, Jing’an paves the way for technical innovation and development. It promotes novel infrastructure and the digital economy. As a result, enterprises’ innovation capabilities have been significantly improved, the establishment of technological bases has been steadily boosted, and the building of smart cities has yielded remarkable results. As more and more innovative talents arrive and the environment for technical innovation continues to improve, regional technical innovation has seen remarkable outcome.
3. Cultural Service
With the objective of pioneering the building of a modern public cultural service system, Jing’an has been deepening the building of “Beauty in Jing'an” themed public culture circle, consolidating the results of the National Public Cultural Service System Demonstration Program and Shanghai Public Cultural Service System Demonstration Zone, optimizing the distribution of urban cultural facilities, and innovating the public cultural service mechanism. On the one hand, Jing’an has improved the Four-layer Public Cultural Service Network composed of one district-level cultural center, 14 sub-district (town) community culture centers, and 263 neighborhood (or village) committee activity rooms including 43 inclusive and creative hubs and optimized the layout of cultural facilities featuring One Axis and Three Belts. On the other hand, Jing’an has been offering more and more public cultural services and improving the governmental procurement service mechanism and the public culture distribution mechanism. Jing’an District is the first to launch “Jing’an Culture Sharing For Free” App based on block chain + technology. Through the “Ten Billion” Cultural Distribution Project, Jing’an has gathered more extensive, diverse and quality cultural resources such as professional troupes, social institutions, cultural celebrities, volunteer services, and various public spaces to further innovate the new distribution modes of sharing, connectivity, co-building and co-ownership between various public spaces and superior cultural resources. In this way, a two-way distribution platform for full coverage and get-through of cultural resources will be built to provide more quality public cultural services to citizens in Jing’an, breaking the “last kilometer” of public cultural services.
Jing’an won the “National Culturally Advanced District” in 2001 and the “National Cultural Relic Work Advanced District” in 2009. In 2013, North Shaanxi Road was honored as the “Chinese Historical and Cultural Famous Street”. In 2015 and 2018, the Crackdown on Pornography and Illegal Publication Office won the “Advanced Collective in Crackdown on Pornography and Illegal Publication”. In 2016, Jing’an ranked successfully among the second batch of Public Cultural Service System Demonstration Districts in Shanghai; Citizen Theatre and the Public Culture Digital Distribution and Interactive Service System (Smart Cultural Service Platform) were listed in the second batch of Public Cultural Service System Demonstration Projects in Shanghai. In 2018, Shanghai Jing’an Modern Drama Valley won the title of Shanghai Top Ten Cultural Brand Events and the JZ SPRING 2018 also won the Nomination Award of Shanghai Top Ten Cultural Brand Events. In 2019, Jing’an’s Smart Cultural Service Platform Project was listed demonstrative one in the third batch of National Public Cultural Service System Demonstration Projects; Jing’an won the National Advanced Collective of Anti-Pornography and Illegal Publications. In 2020, “Jazz Spring” Music Festival was titled “Top 10 Special Cultural Activities of Shanghai”; it won “Excellent Case of 2020 National Cultural Relics Administrative Punishment Case Evaluation”; it was approved as the “National Culture and Tourism Consumption Pilot District”.
4. Physical Education and Sports
Jing’an District adheres to the philosophy that “connected to the people’s livelihood, sports demonstrate a nation’s spirit and culture, with an independent service system”. It promotes a “sports life circle” that is convenient, beneficial and accessible within 15 minutes to the people, continuously optimizing the software and hardware environment for citizens to keep fit. As of the end of 2020, there is a public sports system consisting of 681 fitness sites in communities, 68 fitness walls (rooms) in neighborhoods, 11 gyms for residents including two shared, 18 shared sports grounds, 37 fitness trails, 42 gyms in business buildings, 82 schools with open sports venues, and public sports facilities including the Jing’an Sports Center, the Jing’an Sports and Fitness Center, the Jing’an All-people Fitness Center, the Jing’an Gymnasium, the Jing’an Tennis Stadium, and the Jing’an Workers’ Stadium.
Public sports services, namely, “Jing’an Pro Bono Sports Distribution” and “Door-to-Door Delivery”, together with the management model “Shared Citizen Stadium”, form the “Smart Sports” service platform, which distributes sports venues, fitness guidance, sports equipment, sports events, fitness tests, etc. to the citizens. There are 2,988 social sports instructors and more than 2,100 fitness teams active in communities, parks and buildings in all streets and towns in the district (as of the end of 2020).
In the principle that “everyone participates in sports and competitions”, and to refine the tertiary sports event system, Jing’an holds over 300 public sports events every year, including Jing’an Talents’ Challenge Competition, Sports Square Weekly Competition, running competitions on the New Year’s Day, community sports meetings, Fencing Competition in Jing’an, Go Playing Competition in Jing’an, and Korate Championship in Jing’an. In addition, various domestic and international events such as Westgate Mall Fencing Grand Prix Shanghai, Shanghai International Marathon, and Shanghai Jing’an (Tulip) International Women’s Marathon are annually held in Jing’an. More than 40 training projects are available for teenagers, covering volleyball, football, fencing, swimming, gymnastics, badminton and martial art. There are 3,022 young registered athletes. Altogether 77 primary and middle schools offer 25 special sports courses, as of the end of 2020.
5. Medical and Health Care
As of the end of 2020, there are 365 medical and health institutions, including 42 hospitals (11 Grade-III hospitals, 11 Grade-II hospitals, and 20 other hospitals), 15 community health centers, and 75 community health service stations, 8 public health institutions with 12,450 beds. Relying on the famous Grade-III hospitals such as Huashan Hospital, Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Children’s Hospital, First Maternity and Infant Hospital Corporation, Tenth People’s Hospital, and Shanghai Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jing’an continuously improves medical consortiums and provides residents with more convenient and professional medical service. Jing’an will build Jing’an District Central Hospital, Jing’an District Zhabei Central Hospital, and Shibei Hospital into the respective medical centers in the southern, central and northern areas to provide high-quality medical services. In addition, Jing’an will continue to progress comprehensive community health reform, and promote family doctor mode to provide health management service for contracted residents. According to the high population aging level, Jing’an will allocate more medical and health resources in rehabilitation and elderly care. Through relying on Shanghai Third Rehabilitation Hospital, Shanghai Fourth Rehabilitation Hospital and Community Rehabilitation Hospital, Jing’an deepens the mode that combines medical care with elderly care, and improves elderly care service capability.
6. Featured Tourism
With the goals of building Jing’an into the new landmark of the central urban area and the new highlight of Shanghai, Jing’an District will strive to increase cultural soft power through integrating business, travel, culture and sports, and combining travel, shopping and entertainment. Through using various “water, culture, green land and talents”, Jing’an will strive to build “more abundant cultural tourism resources, high-grade hardware facilities, stronger business and commercial consumption, and better and more convenient reception service”, and create an international and promising Jing’an to attract tourists at home and abroad. By the end of 2020, there are 18 star-rated hotels, including five five-star hotels (including one platinum five-star hotel), ten four-star hotels, two three-star hotels, one two-star hotel, as well as 167 non-outbound travel agencies, 53 outbound travel agencies, 75 branches, and three Class-A scenic spots, namely, Museum of Site of the Second CPC National Congress, Shanghai Sihang Warehouse Anti-Japanese Battle Memorial, and Daning Lingshi Park.
Jing’an Temple Located at No. 1686 West Nanjing Road, the ancient temple in southern China has been one place of interest since the Yuan and the Ming dynasties. Over many years, it has formed the cultural state integrating Buddhism and folk custom. The three grand buildings such as Mahavira Hall, Hall of Heavenly Kings and Hall of the Three Saints were built with the architectural style before the Ming Dynasty. In the past, Jing’an Temple was famous for “Eight Landscapes”, i.e. “Chiwu Stone Tablet” in the Three Kingdoms Period, “Chen Chao Cypress” planted in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, “Shrimp Pond” originated from the eminent monk Zhiyan Yixing, “Lecture Rostrum” built by Zhong Yi in the Southern Song Dynasty, gurgling “Fountain” in the Feijingbang, the abbot’s room “Green Cloud Cave” built by Shou Ning, ancient “Luzi Ferry” to Wusong River, and “Hudu Fort” that was used to defend against pirates in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In addition, the famous paintings created by Zhu Da, and Wen Zhengming’s authentic cursive calligraphy works of The Song of A Guitar are stored in the temple.
Museum of Site of the Second CPC National Congress Located in Lane 7, No. 30 North Laochengdu Road and with the building area covering 2,282 square meters, the Museum consists of Lobby, Basic Displays, History of the Constitutions of the CPC, Themed Hall, and Exhibition Hall of the Second National Congress of the CPC, Exhibition Hall of the Former Site of Civilians’ Girl School, etc. The Museum disseminates party history knowledge in a more profound and simple manner, and explains to the world a “Museum in Shikumen” that combines regional characteristics and cultural connotations, and truly reappear the situation when the CPC was founded in the earliest time. Over many years’ operation, it has gradually created special publicity brands such as “menu-like service” (to visit one museum of CPC history, attend one special CPC theme class, hold one exchange, and watch one CPC theme movie), “experience-based visit to Civilians’ Girl School”, and “Itinerant Exhibition”.
Shanghai Sihang Warehouse Anti-Japanese War Memorial Located on No. 1 Guangfu Road, i.e. west of the site of the original Sihang Warehouse (Sihang Trust Department Shanghai Branch Warehouse). The total building area is about 3,800 square meters, of which the first and second floors are the permanent exhibition halls, and the third floor is the temporary exhibition hall. The Memorial Hall aims to commemorate the famous “Sihang Warehouse Defense War”, and it includes four parts such as “Fierce Battle in Shanghai”, “Hold Fast to Sihang”, “Striving in Isolation" and “Model of Eternal Glory”. Besides the conventional forms such as display board and objects, other display means such as battle scene, sand table model, micro view box, painting statue, interactive game and film and television are adopted to provide the audience with the brand-new experience and feeling. The Memorial Hall highlights the three features such as “Site, Battle and Memorial”. As a professional venue with the functions such as social education, display, publicity, academic study and collection and protection, it embodies the overall positioning of “new base of patriotism education, new platform of cross-strait exchange, and new inheritance of culture of Suzhou River”.
Daning Lingshi Park Located in No. 288 West Guangzhong Road and covering a total area of 680,000 square meters, it is the largest park in the western Shanghai from Gonghexin Road in the east, Hutai Road in the west, Lingshi Road and West Guangzhong Road in the north, and Daning Road in the south. Pengyuepu River, one tributary of Huangpu River, flows through the whole park, and divides it into three parts including eastern part, western part and middle part. The geological condition and landscape of the three parts are different: the eastern part is the water-themed scenic area, including Lake Embankment scenic Spot, Lake and Mountain Scenic Spot, Lakeside Wetland Scenic Spot, 70,000-square meter man-made lake, 3,000-square meter man-made sand beach; the middle part is the unique Moor Park; the western part is the mountain forest area and the European-style scenic spot. East Gate, Mountain Gate (West Gate) and Water Gate are built in northeast, northwest and southwest of the Park. The open squares in front of West Gate and East Gate are resting and meeting places.
Jing’an Statue Park Located in eastern Jing’an District and covering a total area of about 65,000 square meters, it is from Chengdu Road (N) in the east, West Beijing Road in the south, Shimen Second Road in the west and Shanhaiguan Road in the north. It neighbors Subway Line 2 and Line 13. Jing’an Statue Park is an open urban park composed of six scenic spots such as Entrance Square, Mobile Exhibition Corridor, Central Square Landscape, Magnolia Blossom Landscape, Plum Garden Landscape, and Small-scale Landscape. In the Park, the Mobile Exhibition Corridor connects all theme landscape space, and numerous statues are creatively placed in all landscape area in an orderly manner, which has formed a special space. As one site for citizens to take a rest and appreciate art, the Park has become the model of the integration of green land and cultural facilities in central urban Shanghai.
Public Well-being
1.Undertakings for the Aged
Jing’an District has been steadily promoting the construction of social elderly care service system, and improving basic public services for the elderly people. It has been also improving elderly care service system, building 15-minute accessible “Living Circle for the Seniors”. In 2020, Jing’an established one comprehensive elderly service center and renovated one, set up three canteens for the elderly and 10 food stations for the elderly, and established and renovated 15 standardized elderly activity rooms and elderly care service stations to further consolidate the basic status of community home care for the elderly, providing home care services for 33,600 elderly people. Jing’an has deepened the integration of medical care with elderly care to ensure the needs of the elderly for special housing. The reconstruction of 100 beds for cognitive care was completed
2. Social Assistance
Social assistance in Jing’an aims to fulfill the longing of people in need for a better life. To fully implement the Opinions on Reforming and Improving the Social Assistance System and the Shanghai Social Assistance Regulations, Jing’an adopts a basic, sustainable social security system for emergency relief, in line with the nine reform tasks and one pilot program. To tackle problems and meet people’s demands, Jing’an further improves regional social assistance management and services while offering precise, efficient, warm and smart assistance. In this way, it reinforces the security system that safeguards people’s livelihood.
3. Employment and Business Startup
Jing’an has always adhered to the philosophy that employment should be promoted by the government while being regulated by the market, employment should be stabilized while being expanded, and principal contradictions should be resolved through projects while a long-term mechanism should be created to promote employment. On the one hand, Jing’an perfects its functions of providing public employment and entrepreneurship services throughout the entire process. On the other hand, it refines its system of public employment and entrepreneurship services that covers all fields. It offers targeted support for key job hunters with job fairs, career guidance, internships, “work-study programs” and public welfare positions. At the same time, Jing’an actively explores how to promote employment through market and social forces. Randstad alongside nine other premium enterprises formed the Jing’an Alliance of Human Resources Institutions for Employment of College Students to effectively improve the quality of employment services and the efficiency of job matching. Jing’an actively boosts employment through innovation and entrepreneurship, holding college entrepreneurship competitions, entrepreneurship sharing sessions, and evaluation of entrepreneurship plans, etc. It also highlights skills training, implementing a new apprenticeship system, publishing a district-level training subsidy catalog, and carrying out special skills training for elderly nursing staff. It takes multiple measures, strengthens implementation, and continues to promote employment with higher quality in the entire district. In 2020, 905 people were assisted to start a business, including 649 under the age of 35, and 837 long-term unemployed youths were also assisted to be reemployed.
Jing’an District is committed to creating favorable talent development environment to attract creative enterprises and outstanding talents.
4. Disabled-related Work
In Jing’an District, there is one district-level demonstration “Sunshine Base”, one district-level demonstration “Sunshine Home”, 14 sub-district-level “Sunshine Home”, nine “Sunshine Base”, and 13 “Sunshine Park”, six of which are municipal-level demonstration ones in Shanghai. In addition, 14 assistive device service organizations for the disabled, four of which are the demonstration ones in Shanghai. Basically, “every disabled person in Jing’an District with local registered residence has access to rehabilitation services”, and the disabled with the capability and will of employment have been fully employed, and the policies of life assistance and welfare allowance that can ensure the basic needs of the disabled are comprehensively implemented.
Jing’an District has successively won various honors such as “National Disabled-related Work Advanced District”, “National Disabled Community Rehabilitation Demonstration District”, “National Community Disabled-related Work Demonstration District”, “National Mass Sports Advanced Unit”, one in “National Advanced Disabled Coordination Associations” and “Advanced in National Association of the Deaf Work”.
5. Community Construction
In the principle of “clear duties, unified power and responsibility, coordinated operation, and legal and efficient operation”, Jing’an District defines the crossed functions, and adjusts institutions within the sub-districts. In addition, in 14 sub-districts and towns: following the operation mode of “one-stop management and service”, the operation mode of “processing at one window, managing from one side and serving through one door” has been basically formed in “Community Affair Processing Center”; “Community Cultural Activity Center” integrates community education, cultural leisure, healthy service and sports fitness, and positively explores the socialized operation mode; “Community Health Service Center” has the two functions such as medical service and public health (prevention, rehabilitation and health), and professionally connects with Grade-II and Grade-III hospitals in the District; “Community Party Building Service Center” serves Party organizations and Party members; “City Operation & Overall Management Center” tries to discover various urban management problems, and coordinate relevant law enforcement teams; “Community Public Security Center” implements check and dissolution of community contradictions, constructs security prevention and control system and performs the function of public security comprehensive management.
6. Social Organizations
Jing’an District Party Committee and Government earnestly implements the deployment of strengthening social construction and innovating social management of the Central Government and Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Government, and vigorously progresses the cultivation and development of social organizations. In 2007, Jing’an District firstly created “1+14+X” hub-style social organization management mode, built the work mechanism for the government to purchase public service of social organizations, and formulated Jing’an-based and Shanghai-viewed development special fund insensitive system for social organizations. Oriented by people’s needs, and focusing on governmental purchase of service, project operation and “integration of community, social organization and social worker”, Jing’an District strives to transform service management mode, motivate social organizations, and develop and cultivate a large number of social organizations. In Jing’an District, there are 1,046 social organizations (as of the end of 2020), including 25 ones at 5A level, 39 at 4A level, 59 at 3A level, 5 at 2A level and 2 at 1A level, mainly in such fields as social services, education, sports, culture, industrial and business services scientific research and health. These social organizations have been an important force involved in social management and promotion of social harmony.
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