Jiading is a suburban district of Shanghai. It had a population of 1,471,100 in 2010. Historically Jiading was a separate municipality/town until it was under the administration of Shanghai in 1958. In 1993 it was changed from a county to a district of Shanghai.
In early Qing dynasty the municipality was infamously known for "Jiading Massacre", a mass murder by the invading Qing force led by defected northern Chinese bandit general Li Chengdong.  In late Qing, Jiading city was also known for bandit activities that once captured the city and then Shanghai, as a rebellion of taxation.