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[edit] Shanghai
..no old building can be seen in modern (2009) Shanghai just before they are finished all apartment units are already booked or sold!
Some have no infrastructure yet...
[edit] Old Shanghai before the War
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..the old building..only in the museum
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..to do your hair in 1930s..
..bet on horses in 1930s..
..a place to remember..
Shanghai..a reminder of the (Japanese) invaders who came and gone..
[edit] The modern apartment with TVs
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[edit] Why is Shanghai more expensive to live than even Spore?
In the past China (before 1990s) garmen used a double system of currency (one for locals, and another for tourists & outsiders). Yet the hotels and hostels or places to stay are full of locals (in-tourists). How could they afford those rates? Answer: simply they double it for foreigners and discount it for locals. The only difference is that foreigners carry foreigner's passports, and local have their own identity or Chinese passports.
Some city fun ten|stay-in rice hotel for locals don't allow foreigners to stay! Yet those fun ten are more posh even than the hotels we stayed!
If you are a foreigner working as a foreigner in China, remember the tax rates are 40 per cent! Many Foreigners came working their home Companies (Corporations) or maybe just scouting for (English) language teachers' jobs, and believe there is a pot of gold in Shanghai..hehehe.And those condos in Shanghai are built at a speedy rate (without infrastructure sometimes) and rented out quick. Locals need the accommodations, as well as foreigner expats. Foreigners are expected to pay more, and the ppl or owners tend to be unwilling to rent for less. Even the surrounding farmers also take a ride along with the housing boom and cater to the locals rentals. Their rented farm houses often looks bed cum breakfast mansions in the nowhere!
[edit] the city that is the growing hub of the financial world in Asia
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The 2000 census put the population of Shanghai Municipality at 16.738 million, including the migrant population, which made up 3.871 million. Since the 1990 census the total population had increased by 3.396 million, or 25.5%. Males accounted for 51.4%, females for 48.6% of the population. 12.2% were in the age group of 0–14, 76.3% between 15 and 64 and 11.5% were older than 65. As of 2008, the population of long-term residents reached 18.88 million, including an officially registered permanent population of 13.71 million, and 4.79 million of registered long-term migrants from other provinces, many from Anhui, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang Provinces.
According to the Shanghai Municipal Statistics Bureau, there were 133,340 foreigners in Shanghai in 2007. In addition, there are a large number of people from Taiwan for business (estimates vary from 350,000 to 700,000).
The average life expectancy in 2006 was 80.97 years, 78.67 for men and 82.29 for women. Average annual disposable income of Shanghai residents, based on the first three quarters of 2009, is 21,871 RMB.
[edit] Visiting with relatives in Shanghai
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