Mr Clinton, who is touring China, was the guest on Shanghai's popular Radio 909 phone-in along with the Shanghai city mayor.
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For instance, Shanghai city officials pressed the state-run company that owns the Peace Hotel, an Art Deco icon, to undertake a multimillion-dollar renovation.
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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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Visit any burgeoning city in the developing world from Shanghai to Mexico City and the same reality emerges: as cities get larger, they spread out, as people begin to aspire, as best they can, for the quality of life that most North Americans and Europeans already take for granted.
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Retail sales in the city rose 12.3% last year as it is, making Shanghai an attractive city for luxury brands, real estate and professional services.
The Chinese government wants more foreign multinationals to set up their regional corporate headquarters in its shining 21st Century super city Shanghai this year.
In the 15 years Dodington has lived in Shanghai, the city's subway system went from nonexistent to the world's longest network with 420 kilometers (260 miles) of tracks.
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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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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.
This past summer, Starwood Hotels temporarily moved its CEO and other top executives from New York City to Shanghai, to spend a month exploring possibilities in the region.
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.
They and a number of other luxury companies have opened up new stores with breakneck speed in places like Chengdu, a city in southwestern China, and Hangzhou, a city near Shanghai.
In emerging countries never have new middle and upper class households grown so fast, even though the average household similarly cannot remotely afford to buy a house in a major city like Shanghai.
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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.
"Shanghai is reborn as a city -- it's changing so fast and it's great!"
The Starbucks at Metro City in west Shanghai was probably the busiest Starbucks I visited in China.
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His father owned a shoe shop in Ningbo, a city south of Shanghai, where he was born in 1918.
Mr. Guo's remarks come after his Shanghai counterpart said the coastal city will continue policies to rein in home prices.
It now attracts big-name hotel brands like the Hyatt, whose famous VUE bar has one of the best city views in Shanghai.
Most Hong Kong developers were flocking to the city center in Shanghai.
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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.
Look for ETFs that own stocks traded in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Mexico City, since the yuan, the HK dollar and the peso have been relatively steady against the dollar.
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