Word: xujiahui
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...obliged 500 factories in the city to move their production to off-peak hours. Yet it still requires buildings in the top commercial districts to keep their interior lights on all night to burnish Shanghai's image as an international financial capital. According to one building manager from the Xujiahui district, this requirement has led to doubled electricity consumption, not only from the lights themselves but from the air-conditioning needed during the day to cool the overheated building. All in all, Shanghai's much-vaunted nocturnal skyline?100 times brighter than the Australian capital of Canberra's, crow local...
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