Experts share tips on running cities during pandemic By ZHOU WENTING in Shanghai | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-12-27 00:00 Social experts and professors from Shanghai and several cities in Japan exchanged best practices in urban governance under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic during a conference on Saturday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Experts and academics from Shanghai and several Japanese cities exchanged their best practices in urban governance in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic during a conference on Saturday. Scholars from the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, known as the SASS, shared Shanghai's approaches and suggestions from different perspectives. Their counterparts from Japanese cities, including Tokyo and Kyoto, joined via video linkup.