Shanghai Petrochem Science and Technology Museum Formally Opens in Jinshan District

Shanghai Petrochem Science and Technology Museum Formally Opens in Jinshan District

February 15, 2006

            
    SHANGHAI, China, Feb. 15 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
Shanghai Jinshan District Government announces that the
first Petrochem Museum in China, Shanghai Petrochem Science
and Technology Museum, formally opened recently in Jinshan
District, Shanghai.  That brings the total of specialized
Science and Technology Museums in Shanghai to 17.

    Shanghai Petrochem Science and Technology Museum covers
an area of 1,500 square meters, built under the joint
investment of Shanghai Science and Technology Committee and
SINOPEC Shanghai Petrochemical Co., Ltd. (SPC) and based on
the original SPC Exhibition Hall.  By adding more
exhibitions and through using modern technology, the
original SPC Exhibition Hall was transformed into the
Shanghai Petrochem Science and Technology Museum.

    About Jinshan District

    Jinshan, one of the 19 districts (counties) of
Shanghai, is located in the southwest of the city, north of
the Hangzhou Bay and west of Zhejiang Province.  It is
situated at the hub of the economic region linking
Shanghai, Hangzhou and Ningbo, and is inside the geographic
ring of the Yangtze River Delta that is only a two hours
drive away.  

    Jinshan District has a total land area of 586 square
kilometers (about 226 square miles), equivalent to that of
Singapore, and a population of 550,000.  It has rich
natural and cultural heritages, including beautiful beach
lines, famous traditional peasant paintings, black ceramic
arts and crafts, and a world-renowned petrochemical base.

    For more information, please contact:

     Wang Ren of Shanghai Jinshan District Government
     Tel:   [phone]
     Fax:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

SOURCE  General Office of the People's Government of
Jinshan