Shanghai's Pudong district, across the Huangpu river from the old foreign bank buildings on the Bund, shows just how serious China is: a Hong Kong-style skyline of towering buildings, including one housing the largest stockmarket trading-floor in the world, all of it built in just the past decade.

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The hotel is in the tower-filled Pudong area, across the Huangpu River from the famous Bund, in the Lujiazu business district.

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