Shanghai Jinshan District Government announced today that in order to integrate and create more development possibilities, to realize a balanced regional advancement and to help quicken the urbanization and modernization of the area, Jinshan District will readjust its administrative divisions at a township level by changing the previous 14 towns and one street into nine towns and one street. The Shanghai Municipality has met these changes with approval:

-- Fengjing Town and Xingta Town will be replaced by a new Fengjing Town;

-- Zhujing Town and Xinnong Town is to be transformed into the new Zhujing Town;

-- Tinglin Town, Songyin Town and Zhuxing Town are to be abolished and a new Tinglin Town constituted; and

The new Fengjing Town, Zhujing Town, Tinglin Town and Luxiang Town will located in their original places.

Caojing Town, Shanyang Town, Jinshanwei Town, Zhangyan Town, Langxia Town and Shihua Street will be preserved.

After Zhuxing Town is abolished, the Administrative Committee of Jinshan Industrial Park will exercise the administrative function over the areas where the original Zhuxing Town was located.