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Shanghai
Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Shanghai, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta in East China, is the largest city of the People's Republic of China and the eighth largest in the world.
Widely regarded as the citadel of China's modern economy, the city also serves as one of the nation's most important cultural, commercial, financial, industrial and communications centers.
Administratively, Shanghai is a municipality of the People's Republic of China that has province-level status.
Shanghai is also one of the world's busiest ports, and became the largest cargo port in the world in 2005.

Originally a fishing town, Shanghai became China's most important city by the twentieth century and was the center of popular culture, intellectual discourse and political intrigue during the Republic of China era.
After the communist takeover in 1949, Shanghai languished due to heavy central government taxation and cessation of foreign investment, and had many of its supposedly "bourgeois" elements purged.
Following the central government's authorization of market-economic redevelopment of Shanghai in 1992, Shanghai has now surpassed early-starters Shenzhen and Guangzhou, and has since led China's economic growth.
Some challenges remain for Shanghai at the beginning of the 21st century, as the city struggles to cope with increased worker migration, a huge wealth gap, and environmental degradation.
Despite these challenges, Shanghai's skyscrapers and modern lifestyle are often seen as representing China's recent economic development.

Population: 18,670,000 (2006).

For a more information about Shanghai see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This page was retrieved and condensed from (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai) see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, November 2007.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details).
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This information was correct in November 2007. E. & O.E.




Hui Chin, Endre, my son and I stayed i Shanghai during 1997 and it was everything we expected and a lot more.

Wide boulevards and very narrow alleys, new multistory buildings nestled beside old, ancient buildings.


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Hui Chin and I visited China and Shanghai during 2007 again.
We were anxious to ride the Maglev or Transrapid, the only commercial, working one in the world between "Shanghai's Longyang Road subway station in Pudong to Pudong International Airport.
Commercial operation started in 2003.
The 30 km trip takes 7 minutes and 21 seconds
and reaches a maximum speed of 431 km/h (267.8 miles per hour)"



St. Ignatius Cathedral



Shanghai Maglev (June 2005)

Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Shanghai page.







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