Exciting and hard journey
China Daily | Updated: 2009-03-30 07:45
Shanghai has been jubilant in the past few days after the State Council endorsed its plan to become an international financial and global shipping hub by 2020, thereby underpinning the country's international economic influence and currency status.
The excitement surrounding it is well grounded, too.
About 16 years ago, no one would have foreseen that the newly born Pudong New Area program would transform previous farmland into the locomotive of the city's economic growth and the centerpiece of the country's opening up and subsequent role in globalization.
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