SHANGHAI THE FUTURE
1 min readDeng Xiaoping’s sweeping economic reforms of the early 1980’s sought to open China and bring wealth back into the nation. With Deng’s successors continuing his policies of economic development, Shanghai continues to experience massive growth. The city has been propelled so far forward that it doesn’t even have the time to look back.
While many point to Shenzhen’s meteoric rise from fishing village to metropolis.
Pudong’s rise is just as spectacular. Facing the Bund across the Huangpu River, it was once arly uninhabitable marshland better known as Shanghai’s vegetable garden. Today its skyline now looks like the backdrop to a sci-fi movie. Two of Asia’s highest towers, the Jin Mao Tower and the Oriental Pearl Television Tower, top its glittering skyline. By ent.capturing much of China’s foreign and domestic investment, Pudong is at the forefront of China’s giant economic machine. Its broad avenues are lined with glittering office buildings overlooking their forerunners along the Bund.
