SHANGHAI will redevelop the areas near Baoshan cruise liner port and Panyu Road historic neighborhood in downtown. The city has been given some ideas from global urban planners.

A global competition has provided the city’s top planners with a choice of designs for revamping the two sites.

A panel comprising officials and architects from the city’s main planning bodies such as the Shanghai Urban Planning And Design Research Institute and Tongji University yesterday began evaluating over a dozen designs for the two regions.