| Headline: Shanghaied by a dream of riches Source: Euromoney Date: October 2000 more on China
Appropriately enough, I’ve been shanghaied. Still, from here I can still look down on the giant city sprawled below. Between here and the Huangpu River are the fringes of Pudong, the financial centre that has sprouted out of paddy Welds in the past decade. It makes Central in Hong Kong look positively third world. On this side of the river, the most immediately visible symbol of progress – if you can call it that – is the 468-metre Oriental Pearl Building, which is the tallest TV tower in Asia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||