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Shanghai is located on the southern bay of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River passing through it. With a population of 27.058 million as of 2020, it is the most populated metropolitan area in China and the 3rd most populous city in the world. Shanghai is a global center for finance, research, technology, manufacturing, and transportation, and the Port of Shanghai is the world’s busiest container port.
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Originally Shanghai was a fishing settlement. In the 1990s, economic reformations launched by Deng Xiaoping a decade earlier issued in an extraordinary redevelopment of the city. The city has since reemerged as a hub for international business and finance. Nowadays, Shanghai is rated as having the third most competing and largest financial center behind New York City and London. It has the 2nd-highest number of billionaires of any city globally, the 5h-largest scientific research production of any city in the world.
The photos below show what the cityscape looked like in 1990, 1996, and 2010.
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These satellite images show how Shanghai has grown over the past 16 years.
