This summer, the shop for British Museum officially went online in the Tmall, China's largest open business-to-consumer platform under Alibaba. The store sells handbags, moon-shaped fans, mobile phone shells and other items with various themes, including the Egyptian pharaoh, Rosetta Stoneand the Great Wave off Kanagawa.

An article about Caoyang Road’s “fridges with love” located in Putuo District attracted people’s attention. Many citizens added water, soft drinks and even some fruits to the refrigerator for the outdoor workers. Similarly, Beixinjing Street in Changning District offers ten fridges to provide outdoor workers, such as sanitation workers, traffic police and deliverymen, with free water. The service will last until the end of September when the stifling temperatures will have subsided.

The Shanghai Academy of Environmental Science has developed a new mapping system for local urban noise management in China. The data is automatically updated so that the citizens can see the latest urban noise levels every 20 minutes.

The 2018-2019 Shanghai Grand Theatre performance season, themed “Dream beyond the stage”, began recently, featuring as many as 149 operas, ballets, symphonies, dramas and traditional operas, staging almost 300 performances.