安居工程 Affordable Housing Project

　　按揭购房 buy a house on mortgage; to mortgage a house

　　斑马线 zebra crossing

　　搬/动迁户 household to be relocated

　　半拉子工程 uncompleted project

　　步行街 pedestrian street

　　步行天桥 pedestrian overpass; foot bridge

　　菜篮子工程 shopping basket program; vegetable basket project

　　仓储式超市 warehouse-type supermarket

　　畅通工程 smooth traffic project

　　城际列车 inter-city train

　　城市规划 urban planning

　　城市中年雅皮士 muppie (middle-aged urban yuppie)

　　窗口行业 various service trades

　　创建全国卫生城市 build a nationally advanced clean city

　　春运 (passenger) transport during the Spring Festival

　　地市级城市 prefecture-level city

　　电话号码升位 upgrade telephone number

　　“豆腐渣”工程 jerry-built project

　　防盗门 burglar-proof door; antitheft door

　　房产估价师 real estate evaluator

　　房产证 property ownership certificate

　　房管 real estate management

　　浮动工资 floating wages; fluctuating wages

　　福利彩票 welfare lotteries

　　福利分房 welfare-oriented public housing distribution system

　　复式住宅 duplex apartment; compound apartment

　　购物中心 shopping mall

　　胡子工程 long-drawn-out project (a project which takes so long that young workers become bearded)

　　户口簿 residence booklet

　　户口管理制度 domicile registration system; residence registration system

　　户主 head of a household

　　灰色收入 gray income; income from moonlighting

　　基础设施建设 infrastructure construction

　　集资房 houses built on the funds collected from the buyers

　　计划单列市 city specifically designated in the state plan

　　街心花园 park at an intersection; garden in the city center

　　居委会 residents' committee

　　竣工仪式 completion ceremony

　　跨世纪工程 a trans-century project

　　粮油关系 grain and oil rationing registration

　　流动人口 transient population

　　绿地覆盖率 greenery coverage rate

　　绿化 greening up

　　马路菜场入室工程 the project to build indoor food market to accommodate street vegetable vendors

　　盲流和倒流人员 people who had blindly and reversely migrated from rural areas; transient from the countryside

　　门前三包 be responsible for general sanitation， green covering and keeping good social order in a designated area outside the unit building

　　民工潮 farmers' frenzied hunt for work in cities

　　棚户 shacks; family that live in shacks

　　全国卫生城市 National Hygienic City

　　热岛效应 tropical island effect

　　社会化服务体系 socialized service system; social service system

　　社区服务 community services

　　市政工程 municipal works; municipal engineering

　　县改市 　county upgraded to city

　　县级市 county-level city

　　隐性就业 unregistered employment

　　隐性失业 recessive unemployment

　　隐性收入 invisible income; off-payroll income; side money

　　游乐场过山车 roller coaster

　　友好城市 sister city

　　再就业服务中心 re-employment service center

　　噪声治理 noise abatement

　　住房分配货币化进程 capitalization process of housing distribution/allocation

　　住宅小区 housing estate

　　自动柜员机 automatic teller machine (ATM)

　　自助银行 self-service bank

　　最低工资保障制度 minimum wage guarantee system

　　上海聚焦 Shanghai in Focus

　　不夜城 sleepless city; ever-bright city

　　沧海桑田 vicissitudes of time; time brings

　　长江三角洲 the Yangtze River Delta

　　磁悬浮列车 maglev train (magnetically levitated train); magnetic suspension train metropolis

　　大都市 metropolis

　　东方明珠塔 Oriental Pearl TV Tower

　　东海之滨的明珠 the pearl on the coast of the East China Sea

　　高架公路 elevated highway; overhead road

　　国际商业、贸易、金融中心 international business， trade and financial center

　　国际展览局 International Bureau of Exhibitions (BIE)

　　历史文化名城 a famous historic and cultural city

　　龙华寺 Longhua Temple

　　冒险家的乐园 a paradise of adventurers

　　内环线高架 the inner ring line overpass

　　浦东新区 Pudong New Area

　　轻轨火车 light rail train; elevated train

　　人民广场 People's Square

　　上海合作组织 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

　　上海五国第六次峰会 the sixth summit of "Shanghai Five"

　　上海五国机制 the Shanghai Five mechanism

　　“申博”成功 the successful bid for World Expo

　　市政府要办的X件实事 x major projects that should be given top priority on the municipal government's working agenda

　　投资热点 a region attractive to investors; a much sought-after piece if hand; a popular investment spot

　　万国建筑博览——外滩 the Bund-an exhibition of International Architectures

　　信息港 info port; cyber port

　　以上海浦东开发开放为龙头，进一步开放长江沿岸城市 advance the opening of cities along the Yangtze River with the development and opening of the Pudong Area of Shanghai at the core

　　玉佛寺 Jade Buddha Temple

　　豫园 Yu Yuan Garden

　　直辖市 municipality directly under the Central Government

　　租借地 　concessions