Shanghai belongs to the North Asia hot monsoon climate, with four distinctive seasons. The city has sufficient sunshine and rainfall.

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The permanent residents of Shanghai come from China's 44 ethnic groups. The han nationality accounts for 99.53% of the total. The most of them are from Hui, Man, and Mongolian nationalities,zhuang.

The suburban area of Shanghai is located at the southern end of northern subtropical zone.The soil is fertile and there are 333,000 hectares of arable land. Crops grown include rice, wheat, cotton, oil bearing seeds and vegetables.As far as the yield per unit for staple crops is concerned, Shanghai ranks among the highest in the country.Animal husbandry in the suburbs has developed rapidly,the major components being the pigs ,poultry and milk cow.Native produce such as mushroom ,garlic ,rabbit hair ,frozen fowl, living pig, instant -frozen vegetable,whitebait and crab-fry sell well on overseas markets.