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Can Shanghai compete as a global city?
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Shanghai has gone through enormous changes over the past decade that few cities in history have experienced in such a short period of time. The city has succeeded on many fronts: economic growth, foreign investment, trade, improvement in living standards, infrastructure construction, and environmental improvement, to name just a few. But the job is not nearly finished, and Shanghai cannot afford to become complacent. Competition among cities around the world for investment capital, trade, tec...
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