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Time Magazine Pictures: A New Look at Old Shanghai

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Street smarts
The streets of Songjiang, a suburb of Shanghai, will not stay this empty for long. Around 400 million people from rural China are expected to move into urban areas by 2020. Songjiang boasts that 30 Fortune 500 companies are already investing in the suburb's industrial area.

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Waiting for a Heavy Load
In Yangshan Port, Shanghai, the wife of trucker waits while her husband's vehicle is being loaded. With the recent addition of Yangshan Port, the ports of Shanghai have become among the busiest in the world

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On the Waterfront
As night falls, people take photos along the waterfront in Pudong, across the water from the city's most popular tourist area — the Bund. Shanghai attracted more than 110 million domestic tourists in 2008.

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The Tao of Shanghai
A man prays at a Taoist temple in Shanghai's old city. Today, China has more than 50,000 Taoist priests.

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Breathtaking
A man sits at the top of the Jinmao Tower, overlooking a city shrouded in pollution. Official government statistics claim Shanghai has good air quality more than 94% of the time, a stat many residents find hard to believe.

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On the Rails
A crowd waits in a train station in Suzhou. A bullet train between Shanghai and Suzhou has cut transit between the two cities from over an hour to only 39 minutes.

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Clubbin'
A driver looks at the glowing entrance to a nightclub. Shanghai's vaunted nightlife runs the whole gamut from the seedy to the swanky.

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Stepping Out
People eat inside the futuristic indoor patio of a restaurant in Shanghai. As per capita spending rises in China, more and more can now afford to eat out — an activity that not so long ago was considered a luxury here.

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Fast Food to Your Door
A man walks in front of McDonalds' iconic golden arches. There are over 1,000 McDonalds in China, and in Shanghai, the fast food chain offers 24-hour delivery.

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Office Space
People walk in Pudong at dusk. The riverfront area contains many of Shanghai's most famous and unique buildings, but it also contains many of the city's generic office towers.

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Life on the Streets People eat at restaurants and shops along the road. Shanghai has always been famous for its regional cuisine.

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The Right Track
People wait for their trains at the Central Train Station in Shanghai. Investment in China's railroad has jumped 103% in the first nine months of 2009.

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Lighting the Way
A man shines a light into his red umbrella, illuminating the path as he walks along the waterfront in Pudong.

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No More Training Wheels
An attendant stands inside a Shanghai Maglev train. Shanghai has China's first commercial magnetic levitation train route, which can whisk you away to the airport at top speeds at over 265 mph (430 kph). The train uses magnets to raise the entire train above the tracks.

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Building Up
The skyscrapers of Pudong peak over the trees. Despite the downturn, Shanghai is in the middle of a building boom, and residents will soon see even more skyscrapers.

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Picture Perfect
A woman takes a photo at dusk on Nanjing Lu, one of Shanghai's premier shopping streets.

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Off the Job
Office workers leave their buildings and walk along the waterfront in Pudong, Shanghai. Since the recession, China has lost 40 million jobs, according to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

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Bridge Over Troubled Waters
A bridge leads to Yangshan Port. The global downturn has hit Shanghai's port industries as slower turn over in cargo led to a 30% drop in profits in the first half of this year.

Amazing how it was like farm land 30-40 years ago and now its this...

thats crazy yo

it wasn't farmland 30-40 years ago.... wtf French occupied Shanghai had awesome architecture

meh i thought it was literally going to be OLD Shanghai, like 30s,40s at least

Hmmm, the Bund means Ass in Punjabi. AHAH

the sky looks so bad from all the pollution..

these photos are awesome

Is that a small Mcdonald's stand in the of the pictures? Freakin awesome!

Shanghai is probably the only urban center I would wanna visit in China

Its expansion is mindblowing.

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Originally Posted by twitchyzero (Post 6599217)

Shanghai is probably the only urban center I would wanna visit in China

Its expansion is mindblowing.

Dubai's expansion will quite literally make you drop dead then. :haha:

Where is the blue sky? Cool stuff but it looks so dreary with the smogged skies all the time.

shanghainese are snobbish little people
similar traits to their cousins in hong kong but more severe

the tier 2 cities have the fastest growth, mostly the northern ports

Shanghai is an amazing city. Not the mention the northern girls r pretty too

mcdonalds delivery 24 hr
thats awesomee

win, gonna collect my pension here, and die in shanghai

they need some pics of the F1 circuit

Great photojournalism

beautiful photographs

Imagine how beautiful this view would look at night.

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Official government statistics claim Shanghai has good air quality more than 94% of the time, a stat many residents find hard to believe.

lawlz??? more like 0.94% of the time

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Originally Posted by Jah Al Zawahiri (Post 6600068)

Imagine how beautiful this view would look at night.

Ive stayed in the VIP suites at the Ritz (50th floor from what I recall), At night all you can see is blurry lights through the smog. Not really much of a view, haha.

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Originally Posted by Jah Al Zawahiri (Post 6600068)

Imagine how beautiful this view would look at night.

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yeah dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Originally Posted by shenmecar (Post 6599232)

Dubai's expansion will quite literally make you drop dead then. :haha:

Dubai's expansion is garbage. It is all fake, like a Middle Eastern Disneyland. And now because of the global economic crisis, all the projects they were planning/starting have been for the most part scrapped.

i used to live in pudong... damn i miss shanghai
i made up my mind im going in the winter.

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Originally Posted by twitchyzero (Post 6599217)

Shanghai is probably the only urban center I would wanna visit in China

Its expansion is mindblowing.

HK, Shenzhen are also very nice

need more night pictures and pics from the overpass highways, crazy place