Anting

This article is about a place. For the biological behaviour related to ants, see Anting (bird activity).

Anting (Chinese: 安亭; pinyin: Āntíng) is a town in the Jiading District of Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Pronounced An'ting, the placename means "The Pavilion of Peace". Anting is located in the Jiading District (嘉定区) of Shanghai, on the border of the neighbouring province of Jiangsu. It has 52,800 inhabitants and an area of 59.75 km².

Anting is one of the centres of the Chinese automotive industry; it is home to Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation and includes the German/Chinese joint venture: Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive. This enterprise has the largest market share of passenger cars in China.

The Shanghai International Circuit, China's first Formula One race track, is located near the town.

Subdivisions

• Tamiao Village (塔廟村): capital, "Auto City"
• Shuangpu Village (雙浦村)
• Gupu Village (顧浦村): smallest

In the southern part of the city, an extension of "Anting Auto City" called "Anting New Town" (安亭新镇) is being built in the fashion of "Anting German Town" (安亭德国镇).

The first phase of Anting new town construction will completed around June 2007, and the second phase is planned to start before the end of 2007, and the duration is about three years. After the whole project is done, a lovely and quiet town will be a modern community of more than 50,000 people. But there is also a possibility of delaying phase 2 project in Anting New Town due to the financial reasons and poor sales.

A subway line is currently being built through the city which will connect the Auto City to the Shanghai metropolitan area. see more at http://blog.smmail.cn/chenzhi