For expats living in Shanghai, having a fulfilling weekend is not only crucial for stress relief and enjoying life, but also an important way to fully experience the city's diversity and vibrancy.

Here are some possible arrangements for the weekend, including cleaning your home, watching movies, finding restaurants, and engaging in jogging or going shopping.

 

Cleaning Your Home

Those who entertain in their home on the weekend can enjoy a home clean. Cleaning on the weekend totally counts as exercising. You may be able to get the cleaning done each weekend in an hour or so and not waste any weekday free time on intense cleaning tasks.

Some tips for households:

(1) Take out all the trash and wipe down the trash cans before putting new bags in;

(2) Divide cleaning areas into sections, which makes cleaning easier;

(3) Every room gets a good cleaning once a month;

(4) Master some garbage sorting knowledge.

For garbage sorting knowledge, please click here.

 

Buy Film Tickets Online

You can purchase cinema tickets from the following APPs:

Maoyan Movie

You can check the latest movie screenings, choose nearby cinemas, select seats online and make payment. After payment, you can find the ticket code in "My Orders". When you arrive at the cinema, you can scan or enter the ticket code at the ticket machine to get your movie ticket.

Taopiaopiao

Taopiaopiao offers group-buying and discounts for certain timeframes, allowing users to watch movies at a more favorable price.

Damai

Damai is a comprehensive performance ticketing platform where you can find information about various concerts, music festivals, dramas and sports events.

 

 

Finding Restaurants

Shanghai has a vast range of restaurants catering not only to local palettes, but also serving dishes from all over China and all over the world. To add a Shanghainese restaurant to your agenda for spending the weekend may be a good choice. 

For the information about restaurants, please go to the Travel in Shanghai page.

 

 

Jogging Routes

 

For running enthusiasts and fitness seekers, jogging is a good choice to spend your weekend. The jogging routes in the urban areas of Shanghai, including routes along rivers, parks and scenic avenues (park routes and routes along the city) may help enhance the enthusiasm of expats for Shanghai's urban lifestyle and cultural heritage.

Park routes:

(1) Zhongshan Park (Changning district)

Routes within the park. 

(2) Century Park (Pudong New Area)

Route: Running one lap around Century Park is exactly 5 kilometers, very suitable for speed training.

(3) Fuxing Park (Huangpu district)

Route: Xintiandi Station — Middle Fuxing Road — Fuxing Park — Ruijin Road Number Two — Middle Huaihai Road.

(4) Daning Park (Jing'an district)

Routes: routes within the park.

Routes along the city:

(1) Suzhou Creek

Route: Gubei Road Bridge – Zhongshan Park – East China University of Political Science and Law (Changning campus) – Sihang Warehouse Battle Memorial – Shanghai Postal Museum – Waibaidu Bridge.

(2) Xuhui Riverside

Route: from Meilong Road in the south to Caobao Road in the north, and Guijiang Road in the east to Middle Ring Road in the west.

(3) Expo Avenue

Route: China Art Palace — Shangnan Road — Shibo Avenue — Houtan Park.

(4) The Old Pier

Route: Shanghai Bund Indigo Hotel — Waima Road - South Zhongshan Road — The Old Pier.

Go Shopping

 

Online -- Six comprehensive e-commerce apps

Taobao、Pinduoduo、JD.com、Kaola Global、Suning.com、Vip.com

Offline -- Shopping Centers in Shanghai

Please go to the Shop in Shanghai page for more information.