Word: pudong
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...period in 2004, pretax profits in China increased sixfold, to $161 million, in the first half of 2005. As a sign of its renewed influence in the Middle Kingdom, the bank resides today in a new skyscraper called HSBC Tower in Shanghai's up-and-coming financial district of Pudong, across the Huangpu River from the bank's old, domed office on the Bund. "We've been here 140 years, and we'll be here another 140 years, at least," says Richard Yorke, CEO of HSBC in China...
Among the photographs in James Whitlow Delano's book Empire: Impressions from China, is an image of plainly dressed Chinese on Shanghai's Bund gazing across the river at the buildings in Pudong. We can't see the people's faces, but their posture suggests they have been standing there a long time, contemplating the sight of Shanghai's biggest tourist attraction, a shiny visual shorthand for national ambitions: height, wealth, modernity, progress. Yet in Delano's picture, the towers appear faint and far away. They don't scrape the sky so much as leach into it. Maybe they...
...CUPOLA, Shanghai Want a taste of the new China? It doesn't come any richer than that served at the Cupola, tel: (86-21) 6329 1101, a private dining room atop Shanghai's iconic Three On the Bund building, with sweeping vistas of the Pudong business district...
...beautiful Central Park views. THE CUPOLA, Shanghai Want a taste of the new China? It doesn't come any richer than that served at the Cupola, tel: (86-21) 6329 1101, a private dining room atop Shanghai's iconic Three On the Bund building, with sweeping vistas of the Pudong business district. LE CIEL DE PARIS, Paris Claiming to be Europe's highest restaurant, Le Ciel de Paris, tel: (33-1) 4064 7764, is on the 56th floor of the Montparnasse Tower and 209 m above the city center. Gaze at the Eiffel Tower far below, as you relish...
...Numbers 418 kilometers per hour was the top speed achieved by Shanghai's "magnetic levitation" train during its maiden run between the city and Pudong airport last week...