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Coordinates: 31°14′47.05″N 121°28′48.06″E. General Post Office Building viewed from the east. General Post Office in 1994. The General Post Office Building (Chinese: 上海邮政总局大楼) is the head post office of Shanghai, China. Built in 1924, the four-story building is located at 395 Tiandong Road, at the north end of the ...
Chunghwa postal service had signed a contract with the China Airways Federal group in 1929 to transport airmail on the Shanghai-Hankou, Nanjing-Beijing, and Hankou-Guangzhou routes. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Chunghwa Post had functioned as the main postal service provider of Mainland China until 1949.
Qing dynasty. Although postal service in China goes back some 2,500 years, modern postal services were not established until 1877 by the Qing government. This 1-candareen stamp of 1885 has an unidentified seal cancellation and a postmark from the French post office in Shanghai. A 1/2-cent value of the 1897 issue, lithographed in Japan.
The Dàjìng Gé Pavilion wall, which is the only remaining part of the Old City of Shanghai wall The history of Shanghai spans over a thousand years and closely parallels the development of modern China. Originally a small agricultural village, Shanghai developed during the late Qing dynasty (1644–1912) as one of China's principal trading ports. Although nominally part of China, in practice ...
Website. shanghai.gov.cn. en.shanghai.gov.cn. Shanghai[a] is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowing through it. The population of the city proper is the third largest in the world, with ...
Postal codes in China. Postal codes in the People's Republic of China (simplified Chinese: 邮政编码（邮编）; traditional Chinese: 郵政編碼（郵編）; pinyin: yóuzhèng biānmǎ (yóubiān)) are postal codes used by China Post for the delivery of letters and goods within mainland China. China Post uses a six-digit all-numerical ...
Shanghai tram, 1920s. On 11 July 1854 a committee of Western businessmen met and held the first annual meeting of the Shanghai Municipal Council (SMC, formally the Council for the Foreign Settlement North of the Yang-king-pang), ignoring protests of consular officials, and laid down the Land Regulations which established the principles of self-government.
American marines holding up a Japanese patrol trying to enter the Shanghai International Settlement, 1930s . American Legion China Post One, formed in 1919, one year after World War I and chartered by the American Legion on April 20, 1920, was originally named the General Frederick Townsend Ward Post No. 1, China. [4]