Word: huangpu
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Shanghai likes to play by its own rules. But the city's unilateralist approach to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) puzzles a senior hospital administrator from Shanghai's Huangpu district. A month ago, visiting experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) said Shanghai would relax its superstringent standards for diagnosing suspected SARS patients to conform with international norms. That should have caused the city's tiny caseload of suspected SARS patients to increase substantially. But just a couple of days after the WHO's announcement, the hospital administrator was curtly informed by local health-bureau officials that the standards would...
China officially joined the World Trade Organization on Dec. 11, but the celebratory fireworks went off nearly two months earlier, at a gathering in Shanghai of the world's top business and government leaders. For 20 minutes, bursts of communist red and capitalist gold above the Huangpu River reminded onlookers that China invented such displays, more than 1,000 years ago, when the Asian giant had little contact with the outside world. At the Shanghai show, however, the fireworks were choreographed by a company named Grucci, based in Brookhaven, N.Y.--an emblem of China's acceptance of the competition...
...Chinese-French menu offers dishes like spicy duck-breast salad. Or head back on Lane 9 toward Yang's Kitchen for traditional Shanghai dishes like braised meatballs and drunken chicken. End your day with a drink at M on the Bund, a sumptuous bar and Mediterranean eatery on the Huangpu River. From the seventh-floor balcony overlooking the splendid stretch of Old World colonial trading houses, you can look across at the gleaming, futuristic towers of the Pudong financial district. The view doesn't get any better...
Much of Shanghai's so-called urban renewal stems from similarly short-sighted greed. In the mid-'90s, China's largest metropolis went on a building blitz. Across the muddy Huangpu river, a futuristic realm called Pudong materialized, filled with hubris and towering skyscrapers. Shanghai's suburbs expanded into the countryside, with pink-tiled apartment blocks promising a leisured lifestyle to the city's middle class. But in the late '90s, Shanghai's building boom went bust. With occupancy rates plummeting to a dismal 35% in some areas, real-estate developers panicked. So did the city government, which had counted...
...mainland powerhouse of Shanghai. Now that the move is complete, he and six other staff members are all that are left of a former complement of 140 people. In Shanghai, by contrast, Coke's staff will have jumped to a 1 million-sq.-ft., seven-story building on the Huangpu River in the Pudong area, the commercial investment hub still in the throes of hothouse creation by the government. Says Lo: "If you want to crack the China market, you have to be in Shanghai...