This city's population might have reached 23 million, far exceeding the earlier estimates of 20 million, a demographer said on Tuesday. Experts encouraged Shanghai authorities to take more steps to ...

Shanghai wants to cap its population at 25 million people by 2035, leaving little room for the megacity to grow, but demographers say they doubt the plan is feasible.

Of the total population, 89.3 percent, or nearly 22.21 million live in urban areas, Zhu added. The number of permanent residents with a bachelor's degree or above surged 67.1 percent to 8.42 ...

A senior doctor at one of Shanghai's top hospitals is sounding the alarm on surging COVID-19 cases in China -- as he estimates that up to 70% of the city's population is infected.

Rapid population growth in megacities is increasingly a key challenge to urban management. Take Shanghai, for example. The number of permanent residents there stood at 16.4 million in 2000, and ...

SHANGHAI - The number of elderly people in Shanghai has reached 3.67 million, accounting for more than a quarter of the city's population, local authorities said Thursday.

Shanghai has vowed to build the city into a modern socialist international metropolis of global influence and limit the population to 25 million by 2035, as Chinese experts stressed the need for ...