Inner Ring Road (), also known as ''Inner Ring Elevated Road'' (), is an elevated expressway loop in the city of

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

. It was the first

ring road A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city or country. The most common purpose of a ring road is to assist in reducin ...

around the city of Shanghai. The Puxi section of the road was completely grade-separated and complete in 1994, while the

Pudong Pudong is a list of administrative divisions of Shanghai, district of Shanghai located east of the Huangpu River, Huangpu, the river which flows through central Shanghai. The name ''Pudong'' was originally applied to the Huangpu's east bank (g ...

section of the road was completely grade-separated in 2009. Before the grade separation in

, the road ran at street level, with traffic lights at intersections. The maximum speed on the expressway is , with two lanes in each direction. The Inner Ring Road crosses the

Huangpu River The Huangpu (), formerly romanized as Whangpoo, is a river flowing north through Shanghai. The Bund and Lujiazui are located along the Huangpu River. The Huangpu is the biggest river in central Shanghai, with the Suzhou Creek being its ...

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