Shanghai, China is the most populous city.

Shanghai city has a population of 24.19 million (resident population at the end of 2016), of which 14.395 million are household residents, and 9.820 million are foreign residents. Annual resident population of 218,400 births, birth rate of 9.0 per thousand; death of 120,800 people, mortality rate of 5.0 per thousand; the natural growth rate of resident population of 4.0 per thousand. Annual household resident population of 129,200 births, the birth rate of 9.0 per thousand; death of 114,000 people, the mortality rate of 7.9 per thousand; household resident population natural growth rate of 1.1 per thousand.

Because of the large number of people moving in and the rapid growth of foreign mobile population, the total population of Shanghai is gathering and expanding trend. The population was less than 100,000 when the port was opened; the household population was 5.2 million at the end of 1949; at the end of 2015, the household population had risen to 14,429,700, 2.8 times the number at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The city's resident population is 24,152,700, of which 9,816,500 are foreign residents and 14,336,200 are household residents.

Shanghai, abbreviated as "Shanghai" or "Shen", is the birthplace of the Communist Party of China (CPC), a municipality directly under the central government of the People's Republic of China (PRC), a national central city, a mega-city, the core city of Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo (SHANGHAI-NINGBO) Bay Area, an international center of economy, finance, trade, shipping, science and technology innovation, and one of the first coastal cities. and scientific and technological innovation center, the first batch of coastal open cities. Located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, is the leading city of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, across the East China Sea and Japan's Kyushu Island, south of Hangzhou Bay, north and west of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

(Reference ----- Shanghai Municipal People's Government Website link)