Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news

To improve its landscaping, Shanghai plans to develop 20 square kilometers in 10 downtown areas into "model zones" this year, officials with Shanghai Landscaping Administration Bureau said on January 11.
These zones will be clean and well equipped, and will feature local cultural information in an inviting setting.
It is planned that by 2010, the date of the World Expo, the landscape authority will turn 20 percent (or 150 square kilometers) of the entire 700-square-kilometer urban area into such model zones, and another 60 percent, or 400 square kilometers, into "standard zones".
The standard zones will target areas currently with outdated and inferior facilities and equipment.