Minghan, China, Asia
Year latitude: ° 0' longitude: ° 0' Period 1951? Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants 200,000 Target population Town website Town related links Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
Company town Minhang is located 30 km south from Shanghai on the Huangpu River, with direct acces to the sea-lanes for ships. This locational advantage was further strengthened by the building of a rapid highwaylinked to western circuit of Shanghai's outer ring 91958). In 1959 Minhang was linked with the national rail network by a brach line from the Shanghai-Hangzhou route. The town was planned to expand to 200.000 population, but although it experienced dramatic growth in teh early years, its population settled at around 37.000 in 1957 and did not increase significantly during the ensuing decades despite its industrial progress. Minhang seems to be one of the most succesful and complete example of the Shanghai satellite town programme due to the exeptional level of investment of industry, transport infrastructure and residential facilities which it enjoyed. Minhang was largely financed by electrical machine companies such as Shanghai Electrical Machinery Plant, the Heavy Machinery Plant and the Shanghai Boiler Plant. 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, 215-216)
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