Meanings
- A town and planned city in Pudong district, Shanghai, China.
A decent portion of Nanhui New City, on the far outskirts of Shanghai's Pudong district, has already been built.
2015, Wade Shepard, Ghost Cities of China: The Story of Cities without People in the World's Most Populated Country, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=5uhiDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT562 more examples
The 20.2 mile (32.5 km) long box girder structure with a central cable-stayed section connects Luchao Port in Nanhui New City in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai with the deep-sea port of Yangshan in Zhejiang Province.
2013, Wolfgang Kunth, editor, Terra Maxima: the Records of Humankind, Firefly Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 366While in Shanghai we also visited the city's future economic engine, its new Free Trade Zone called Nanhui New City, and we gained diverse perspectives of Shanghai’s emerging issues from conversations with leaders in media, education, and the non-profit sector.
2014, Samuel Kim, John Lim, “Mutual Sharing: Learning and Service”, in Experiencing Asia: Essays from the Asia Leadership Trek, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 34–35Synonyms: Lingang New City, Nanhui
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA town and planned city in Pudong district, Shanghai, China.
Origin
c. 2012, partial calque from Mandarin 南匯新城／南汇新城 (Nánhuì Xīnchéng).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 南匯新城 /南汇新城
- 南匯新城 /南汇新城 (Nánhuì Xīnchéng)town & planned city
Cite this entry
Nanhui New City. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nanhui%20New%20City
“Nanhui New City.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nanhui%20New%20City. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Nanhui New City,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nanhui%20New%20City.
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