Ever since China opened up to the world in 1980's, the Shanghai Municipal Government, led by the Communist Party of China and the State Council, makes great effort to build the city into an international economic, financial, trade and shipping center. With the cooperation and hardwork of Shanghai people, the city is progressing to its goal as a global metropolitan. The new team of leaders of the Shanghai government took office in February 2003. "The power of the government is entrusted by the people; the interest of people is above all," as Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng promise in his inaugural. Guided by the Shanghai Party Committee, the city's new leadership vows to strictly perform its official duties; to make significant progress in self-improvement, and to intensify the shift of its role from administrative to public service. The Shanghai government will build itself into a service government that would share with the people all their happiness and troubles; a solid responsible government that is efficient, honest and diligent; a law-abiding government that respects legal system and rules strictly and impartially.

To work out policies more considerate for citizens, Shanghai launched four investigations on city and citizen situation

10/09/2004

To enable government decision makers to do a better job in working out relevant policies and ensure prompt and accurate data, Shanghai is to launch four large-scale investigations on city and citizen situations from May 16th to the mid June: "Sampling Investigation on Basic Situation of Urban Residents in 2004", "Investigation on Urban Labor Force", "Follow-up Investigation on Unemployment Rate in Urban Area" and "Investigation on Graduate Employment".
Shanghai Statistics Bureau revealed to the media on 13th, according to the requirements from Central Government, Shanghai is to make use of the investigation opportunity to have a complete understanding on changes of labor force market in Shanghai and learn of economic and living conditions of such under-privileged group as the unemployed as well as hotspots in employment at present, thus trying to find out the real situation for the government and making policies more considerate for people. From May 16th to 22nd, they are to take out about 10,000 households from almost 300 village committees in 150 villages, towns and blocks from 18 districts and towns of Shanghai, and launch "Sampling Investigation on Basic Situation of Urban Residents in 2004", "Investigation on Urban Labor Force", "Follow-up Investigation on Unemployment Rate in Urban Area" and "Investigation on Graduate Employment".
Urban investigation team from Shanghai Statistics Bureau is to take out 3000 households in all blocks and some towns from the 19 districts and towns of Shanghai to launch "Sampling Investigation on Basic Situation of Urban Residents in 2004" between June 1st and 20th, so as to find out the real situation of information on family members, income, expenditure, consumption, education and social security of urban residents in Shanghai. Method of the investigation is investigators going into homes of the investigated and list of investigated neighborhood committees is to be publicized on website of Shanghai Statistics Bureau.

The Shanghai government 2006