After the trial launch on Sept.28, 2001, "China Shanghai" government official website was formally opened to public on Jan.1st, 2002. As the general platform for message distribution of all the city agencies under Shanghai municipality, "China Shanghai" government official website opens a window for all the city agencies to connect their intranets with the world.
The key tasks of "China Shanghai" government official website are: to transfer and release the messages from Shanghai municipality on Internet; to establish the Internet message channel between the government, the citizens and the enterprises or agencies; to enable the government to provide online services such as citizen-oriented public affairs and administrative approval.
The guideline and purpose of "China Shanghai" government official website are: to build channel for citizens' participation in public affairs, improve the transparency of government work and guarantee citizens' right of knowing-inside; via Internet and IT applications, to provide government the effective way such as online-service and online-office, to facilitate citizen or enterprise handling relevant business, to drive government BPR, to improve government administration efficiency; to strength the interactivity with local private networks and intranets during the process of Shanghai establishing the administration system adaptable to economic and social development; to become the model of Shanghai e-government affairs during the process of promoting e-government coordination, online affair-handling and e-mail application.
"China Shanghai" government official website mainly includes: Government news, Mayor window, Online office, Citizen service, Expat service, Hot topics, Agencies guidance, Agencies links, Service navigation and etc.
"China Shanghai" government official website is created and maintained by: the Newsroom of "China Shanghai" government official website (hereafter "the Newsroom"), which functions as the message distributor, routing maintainer and operator of "China Shanghai" government official website, as well as the service communicator and coordinator with the intranet of municipality agencies and district or county governments.

Access the Newsroom of "China Shanghai" government official website by contact:
Director Sun Songtao, who is fully in charge of the Newsroom of "China Shanghai" government official website.
E - Mail: stsun@shanghai.gov.cn
Tel:（021）63212810－3872
（021）－63580071
Assistant director Shang Zimin, who assists the director in the routing work of the Newsroom of "China Shanghai" government official website.
E - Mail: zmshang@shanghai.gov.cn
Tel:（021）63212810-3873
Address: 200 Renmin Avenue
Zip: 200003