Word: pudong
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Once the deal was done, the factory rose miraculously from a site in the city's Pudong development district--140 acres of marshy paddy field with no roads, electricity or drainage. The first piles were sunk in January 1997, and to everyone's amazement, not least the GM engineers, the first car rolled off the line on Dec. 17, 1998. "The government helped us enormously with infrastructure," says Chen Hong, president of SGM. In 1998 SGM was designated Shanghai's No. 1 economic project--a privileged, pull-out-all-the-stops status that went to the city's new airport...