Located outside of Shanghai, Suzhou was looking to distinguish itself from its larger-than-life neighboring city.
The latest investors are Sukida Motorcycles of Guangdong province and Chu Zhan Stone Corp of Shanghai.
It has more cranes than any city in the world today with the exception of Shanghai.
SAIC, better known as the parent of Shanghai Automotive, is a Chinese state-owned enterprise.
One region that combines well-preserved villages with otherworldly scenery is Huizhou, about 400km southwest of Shanghai.
In the hyper-crowded skyscraper districts of Shanghai, densities can approach 125, 000 people per square mile.
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They were joined by four officials from the Councillors Office of Shanghai Municipal Government.
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Other landmark stores have been installed in Paris and the Pudong district of Shanghai.
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Shen Feiyu runs one of Shanghai's largest restaurant chains and is dabbling in economy hotels.
These days I live alone on the outskirts of Shanghai in a bizarre villa.
Parts of Shanghai, Taiyuan and Tianjin have dropped by more than 6 feet for the same reason.
Reports suggest the dead pigs may have been dumped from pig farms in Jiaxing, upstream of Shanghai.
It is one of many labs in the biochemistry research gulch of Shanghai's 15-square-mile high-tech office park.
Pan recently published The Jews of Shanghai, the first book about the community in English and Chinese.
There was no shortage of Shanghai dwellers paying that at either for some peace of mind there yesterday.
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"The spirit of Shanghai in the 1930s -- the glamour, the fun -- resonates" with guests, he says.
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Forty-five minutes away from the musk are the gleaming labs of Shanghai Hutchison Pharma's sibling company, Hutchison MediPharma.
Patrick Cranley, a Shanghai public-relations executive and well-known collector of Shanghai Deco furniture.
His father owned a shoe shop in Ningbo, a city south of Shanghai, where he was born in 1918.
The skylines of Shanghai, Chongqing, and other cities are much more impressive than those of New York or London.
Before and during World War II, some of Shanghai's richest men conspired to save tens of thousands of Jews.
Yang Fan, a 26-year-old Internet whiz, two years ago launched one of Shanghai's first new-media web-design companies, Shengquan Design.
The company, for example, was recently engaged to build power substations for the city of Shanghai's light rail system.
After the chaos of Shanghai, it was a welcome vision of rural serenity.
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Netanyahu commented during a meeting with Yang Xiong, mayor of Shanghai, that the two countries should collaborate on new technologies.
Hang Yingwei, president of Shanghai Construction Group Co, told Xinhua news agency that the tower will break many world records.
The feeling of surplus space is similar at a new Sany plant, in Lingang, about 40 miles southeast of Shanghai.
Dongguan's Brazilian community is now China's largest, twice the size of Shanghai's and almost triple the size of that in Beijing.
Professor Lu Gusen, of Shanghai's famous Fudan University, is concerned that in the push for modernity, Chinese culture can be neglected.
Many prefer Kunshan to the nearby cities of Shanghai and Suzhou because of its lower labour costs and less cumbersome bureaucracy.
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