In his eyes, Shanghai people are born with an amazing ability to absorb new things.
But publisher Shanghai People's Publishing House gave the book market appeal with a slick billboard campaign in the downtown areas of major Chinese cities.
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Years later, for a period, it became the Shanghai High People's Court.
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Wipro has a hundred people in Shanghai and Beijing and also plans to expand.
Infosys has hired 360 people in Shanghai and plans to employ 6, 000 in the country in five years or less.
Hundreds of people in Shanghai fell ill last year from such meat.
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As an aside, in a previous decade I would tell American business people that Shanghai, Beijing and other Chinese cities were not irrelevant backwaters.
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Only three-fifths of the people of Shanghai live in buildings connected to a sewer, and barely 3% of the inhabitants of Jakarta have access to the main drains.
But China has 1.3 billion people, and Shanghai has only 20 million.
So perhaps there's something we can do coming out of this trip - the mayor and I - to have more exchanges with people from the Shanghai area, because I believe it's very important.
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The U.S. Consulate in Shanghai issued a statement Friday urging people to remain calm.
People everywhere fly to Shanghai to eat crabs, and crabs are flown from Shanghai to consumers throughout China.
On the Shanghai Disneyland project: 300 million people live within a few hours.
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" Added Evelyn Pike, author of Ghetto Shanghai: "I tell people to write.
The virus, which was found about a week ago in Shanghai, has now infected 28 people, all of them in eastern China.
Neptune Orient Lines ( NPTOY - news - people ) and cargo through Shanghai Port as examples.
In the hyper-crowded skyscraper districts of Shanghai, densities can approach 125, 000 people per square mile.
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The company opened its three-story flagship store on People's Square in downtown Shanghai in 2006 to sell Goodbaby and other brands to middle-class Chinese.
At People's Ninth Hospital in Shanghai, a public hospital that is the city's busiest for cosmetic surgery, there were 50, 000 cosmetic operations in 2011, a 50% increase in five years, according to Qi Zuoliang, deputy director of the plastic-surgery department.
Eleven people have died, most of them in Shanghai, the World Health Organization said Friday.
Over the last month, 43 people from Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and Shanghai have been diagnosed with the new H7N9 strain of bird flu.
It has gone, too, in cities such as Shanghai and Beijing, where a survey recently found that many people said they would prefer a daughter on the grounds that daughters were more likely to care for their aged parents than sons.
The mayor of Shanghai, China -- a city of over 20 million people -- told me that even in such a large city, they had no problem recruiting teachers in whatever subject, but particularly math and science, because teaching is revered and the pay scales are comparable to professions like doctors.
"People are worried, " Yan Zhicheng, an elderly Shanghai resident, told AFP news agency.
Today, new companies are going to seek out the fastest, most reliable ways to move people, goods and information, whether they are in Shanghai or in Chicago.
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"Safety must be first priority, " wrote the People's Daily in a commentary published days after the Shanghai blaze.
The revision came days before the opening of the six-month Shanghai World Expo, which organizers expect will draw more than 70 million people.
On Apr. 20 General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people )' Rick Wagoner unveiled a new Buick model at the Shanghai Auto Show, at an event Carlson ran.
At the company's Shanghai shop, customer Jin Yi said Mr Jobs had created gadgets which had "changed people's perceptions of machines".
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