Shanghai originally belonged to Jiangsu province? 1927 (16), in view of Shanghai's special position and complicated situation in China, the National Government planned to build a special city in Shanghai. Divide and rule cities and counties from now on. Shanghai is a municipality directly under the central government. Until 1949, it became a municipality directly under the Central Government of the People's Republic of China. Later, Shanghai County, Jiading Chongming County, which belonged to Songjiang Prefecture, came under the jurisdiction of Shanghai.

After that, Shanghai did not belong to any province. Shanghai is one of the four municipalities directly under the Central Government of China. China has four municipalities directly under the Central Government: Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing.

Shanghai belongs to the east of China. Shanghai, referred to as "Shanghai" or "Shen" for short, is the birthplace of China's * * * production party, a municipality directly under the Central Government of the People's Republic of China, a national central city, a megacity, a core city of Shanghai, Hangzhou and Ningbo, an international economic, financial, trade, shipping and scientific and technological innovation center, and the first batch of coastal open cities. Located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, Shanghai is the leading city in the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the core city of G60 Science and Technology Corridor. It faces Kyushu Island across the East China Sea, with Hangzhou Bay in the south and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the northwest.

East China, East China generally refers to the region where six provinces 1 cities in eastern China are located, including Taiwan Province, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Shandong and Shanghai, and South China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan).

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Shanghai (municipality directly under the Central Government of the People's Republic of China) Baidu Encyclopedia