Winning designs on show at Shanghai Poly Theatre on Wednesday.

Winners of an international design competition forJiadingNew City, one of the five "new cities" planned in Shanghai, were announced on Wednesday.

Designers from 22 teams were given the task of designing up to five key zones of the new town at the end of last year.

The zones were theYuanxiangLake Central Activity Zone,JiadingHistorical Center,HengliRiverfront, East Station Area ofJiadingNew Town and ZhuqiaoScience and Technology Town.

The winners werePeschPartnerArchitektenStadtplanerfrom Germany, ShanghaiTongjiUrban Planning and Design Institute,HassellDesign Consulting Shanghai Co and Shanghai Planning Institute Design Co.

The winning designs will be taken as the foundation for further planning of the five zones, theJiadingDistrict government said.

JiadingNew City, in the center of the district, is to be expanded to 160 square kilometers from the current 122, and cover a third of the entire district.