Jinshanwei, China, Asia
 
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Jinshanwei is situated 72 km south of Shanghai on the site of af an ancient coastal garrison. It was not included in the Shanghai satellite towns programme (1958). Jinshanwei's costal site was the ideal location for a petrochemical complex, to be suplied by tanker from the northern and north-eastern oilfields and serving a huge market in the Shanghai-Wuxi-Hangzhou region. The Shanghai Petrochemical Complex is centrally located in the satellite town. Jinshanwei is one of the most succesful satellite cities around Ahiahai, but still this succes is limited. In general, many urban people did not want to move, and house hold registration was not supposed to be given to rural people. The number of satellite suburbs that had been state-planned for Shanghai were greater than residents would support by moving there. 'Incompleteness' was main reason for people staying away. There were insufficient edcucational, commercial and social facilities. In order to attract people to Jinshanwei some upgrading is done by the government: the floorspace has rise and people are accepting jobs at the Petrochemical complex on condition that they are allowed to return to Shanghai.

source: (R.J.R. Kirkby, A review of satellite town policies in the People's Republic of China: The experience of Shanghai, in: David R. Phillips and Anthony G.O. Yeh, New Towns in East & South East Asia Planning and Development, New York 1987, 216)

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