A New Look at Old Shanghai

A New Look at Old Shanghai
Julien Daniel / MYOP

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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