The company, for example, was recently engaged to build power substations for the city of Shanghai's light rail system.
Two men have died in the Chinese city of Shanghai, after contracting a strain of bird flu not previously known in humans, Chinese officials say.
It recently acquired a 20 percent interest in Dazhong Insurance, a property and casualty insurer backed by the city of Shanghai, where Starr began his company in 1919.
The Chinese city of Shanghai, which last year overtook Kaohsiung as the world's fourth-largest port (after Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea's Pusan), saw traffic rise by an almost-as-impressive 35.6%.
The city of Shanghai has been utterly transformed, and development at an astonishing pace has spread far down the length of the Yangzi river, a region encompassing perhaps 300m people.
His father owned a shoe shop in Ningbo, a city south of Shanghai, where he was born in 1918.
He and Lu, both from the remote northwestern province of Xinjiang, chose to live and base their office in the city of Hangzhou, rather than cosmopolitan Shanghai two hours away, because of the lakeside city's age-old connection to Chinese literature and art.
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Some restaurants, like the Ning Po Residents Association, require a nominal annual fee (around 200 Hong Kong dollars), but in return you gain access to excellent food (in this case, recipes from the city of Ningbo, near Shanghai, such as delicate, juicy soup dumplings and sweet-and-sour fish), in an exclusive but usually unpretentious setting.
In China, officials have quarantined 68 people, including 13 crew members, who were passengers of a Mexico City to Shanghai flight, which carried a passenger who tested positive for the virus, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported Sunday.
It now attracts big-name hotel brands like the Hyatt, whose famous VUE bar has one of the best city views in Shanghai.
Eleven years later, the Hua family leave their French Concession town house almost every Saturday to head to their weekend home in Zhaoxiang, a rural suburban township 22 miles west of Shanghai's city center, in the district of Qingpu.
But few places in the world embraced Art Deco with the fervor of Shanghai, a city obsessed with fashion and fixated on being up-to-date -- in part because of the view, prevalent in China at the time, that only by modernizing could the country regain its strength and stand up to Western imperialism and a militant Japan.
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What if we told you that sales of skin care products in the next decade will be twice as much in a single city Shanghai as in the entire country of Malaysia?
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It has more cranes than any city in the world today with the exception of Shanghai.
In response, Chinese authorities have extended a ban on poultry trading to the city of Nanjing, having earlier closed markets in Shanghai.
China suspended all flights into and out of Mexico after a 25-year-old Mexican man who arrived Thursday in Shanghai from Mexico City became the Asian country's first confirmed case of the virus.
China suspended flights into and out of Mexico after a 25-year-old Mexican man who arrived in Shanghai from Mexico City on April 30 became China's first confirmed case of swine flu.
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The mayor of Shanghai, China -- a city of over 20 million people -- told me that even in such a large city, they had no problem recruiting teachers in whatever subject, but particularly math and science, because teaching is revered and the pay scales are comparable to professions like doctors.
Shanghai, of course, is a city that has great meaning in the history of the relationship between the United States and China.
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In Shanghai, only 200, 000 of the city's 14m population went to see the film, which was one of the most profitable movies in Disney history elsewhere in the world.
Shanghai, a cosmopolitan world city decades before the Communist takeover of the country, expanded almost 50% since 2000.
His quiet style and skills as a technocrat soon won the respect of the then mayor of Shanghai, who made him a special adviser on the city's development.
In this case, a collaboration between the Shanghai City Government (which provides funding) and an aggregation of several NGO support organizations (which actually run the project), it represents the first initiative of its type in China.
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Le Tour Traveller's Rest, housed in a former towel factory, is Shanghai's best youth hostel and leaves most of the city's budget accommodation hanging out to dry.
Mr. Hudec arrived in Shanghai at the end of World War I "in a city that wanted to change, and he wanted to change with it, " Ms. Warr says.
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The Shanghai Corporate Pavilion at the World Expo, funded by local state enterprises, commissioned a Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer, Liu Heung Shing, to compile a book of images of Shanghai's history, giving him unprecedented access to the city's archives.
Incidents such as the recent discovery of more than 6, 000 dead pigs in Shanghai's Huangpu River, which supplies much of the city's tap water, make China a particularly hard sell, said Doreen Jaeger-Soong, managing director of legal recruitment firm Hughes-Castell.
The killing of birds at the Huhuai market in Shanghai started Thursday night after the city's agricultural committee ordered it in a notice also posted on its website.
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