Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
(You cannot leave the general area of Shanghai during your TWOV stay.)
It really depends on what you mean by "general area of Shanghai". You are allowed to travel anywhere within the adjoining Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces in addition to Shanghai. But geographically speaking, most Chinese people would lump the three provinces (Shanghai being a provincial level city) together as the general Yangtze delta area.