People now have more money to spend, and some of them go to the new Shangri-La-run hotel at the top of the China World Tower, Beijing's tallest building.
Positioned at Pudong's tip, the Oriental Pearl Tower was a cartoonish totem for China's race into modernity and an emphatic counterpoint to the Bund, a strip of colonial-era buildings on the opposite Puxi bank of the Huangpu River.