Shanghai’s government unveiled a new online portal for expat services on January 1, 2024, introducing the beta version of its English website (english.shanghai.gov.cn) alongside social media accounts on Facebook, X, and WeChat, to better serve the city’s large and growing international population.

The portal is aiming to become a user-friendly one-stop hub with multilingual information, resources, and services for foreigners traveling to Shanghai, settling in or residing in the metropolis.

The goal is to provide authoritative information and interactive services in areas such as doing business and finding a job apart from studying, traveling and shopping in Shanghai. Offline events will be organized to help expatriates integrate into the city’s life.

The portal will be made available in eight other languages -- Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Arabic -- in due time.