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---shanghai memory
Pudong shows what China wants to become. The dizzying skyrises clustered on the eastern side of the Huangpu River define the contours of modern Shanghai's urban ambition, but more than this, they restore the battered pride of an entire nation. Pudong is an area of superlatives. From the airport, visitors can magnetically levitate into the city on the world's only operating maglev train.
The Pudong New Area occupies 523 square meters on the eastern bank of the Huangpu River (its name combines 'pu' meaning 'river' and 'dong' meaning 'east'). The western tip, bound by the Huangpu, was designated the Lujiazui Free Trade Zone. The government has since poured tens of billions of renminbi into its infrastructural and economic development. Lujiazui has become the national or regional headquarters to some of the world's most influential companies, from domestic giants Bank of China and China Telecom to such foreign counterparts as Citibank, HSBC, General Motors and Boeing. More information continued.
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