The rankings include both countries and regional school systems, such as Shanghai in China.
The tremors were felt as far away as Shanghai and Hangzhou on the mainland's east coast.
The company doesn't expect that growth to be in only high-profile cities such as Shanghai.
Still, impressive as Shanghai's skyscrapers are, they are still mostly empty, and for good reason.
After first investing in the mainland through projects such as Shanghai Times Square in the 1990s, Wharf upped its pace.
"Santana is a car model used as Shanghai's taxicabs, " Li explained.
After years of growth in the major coastal cities, such as Shanghai and Beijing, interest has grown in the booming and vast interior of the country.
Hong Kong officials say they are ready to halt live poultry imports or cull birds if needed, as Shanghai has already done, to prevent a mass outbreak.
It has gone, too, in cities such as Shanghai and Beijing, where a survey recently found that many people said they would prefer a daughter on the grounds that daughters were more likely to care for their aged parents than sons.
It takes about as long to get a container from Long Beach, California, to Shanghai as it does to get one from Shanghai to Chongqing, a thousand miles or so up the Yangzi river.
Known for grandiose projects such as the Shanghai World Financial Center, China's tallest building, which opened in 2008.
Even as the Shanghai factory runs on three shifts, its first joint venture in the rust belt city of Shenyang remains a morass.
We raised our profile by making donations to government programmes such as the Shanghai Expo, and the "Go West" programme to develop the interior of the country.
Despite the broad regional news, stocks in China were influenced by domestic news, as the Shanghai Composite fell 1.4% to 2294.34 after an editorial in a state-owned newspaper said that the country's recent loose monetary policy is coming to an end.
Some might opt to avoid very expensive cities, such as Beijing or Shanghai, for up-and-coming smaller urban centers such as Chengdu, the provincial capital of agriculturally fecund Sichuan province.
"Local governments are also keener to support e-commerce retailers, which contributes to higher employment and meaningful tax revenue for the city, " said Mr. Shen, adding that the company plans to expand further in first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, where it currently has a presence, and into second-tier cities such as Chongqing and Chengdu.
It was this development, he said, that helped establish Shanghai as a global brand.
The expectation was fulfilled in Shanghai as in scores of other towns and cities.
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Miwa is a Japanese beauty working in Shanghai as a model, a make-up artist and an agent.
However, his performances in Shanghai as he collected a sixth Masters 1000 title appear to have restored Murray's belief.
But I am clueless as to what Shanghai will turn out to be in two years' time, totally clueless.
Demand in prime cities such as Beijing and Shanghai is phenomenal.
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Prices of newly built homes in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou were marginally lower compared with November, the statistics bureau's statement said.
Last year reports in the state-controlled press suggested that Beijing and Shenzhen, as well as Chongqing and Shanghai, would be among the first cities to introduce such taxes.
Likewise in China, there are a growing number of super-high speed rail lines that can travel above 300 km per hour between major cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai.
The hotel -- with a tower topped by a sharply pitched pyramidal roof -- became the Art Deco trendsetter for Shanghai as soon as it opened its doors in 1929.
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As labor costs in the industrial centers such as Shenzhen and Shanghai increase, the solutions are increased automation and also to move factories to the interior of the country, i.e.
If their display on the straights at Qatar is anything to go by they should have a significant advantage at Shanghai as it's the longest straight we've got in the whole series.
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Royal Caribbean is building up a training team to teach travel agents in markets such as Beijing and Shanghai and increasing its marketing spend to educate travelers who are fearful of sea sickness.
The four-person family of Ralph Hirsch, who escaped from Berlin to Shanghai as a boy in 1940, had a tiny apartment for six months, then lived in one small room for six years.
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