Pudong

I'm not ready to say that yet, but there is a book in there, and I'm ready to start figuring it out once I make enough money doing this as a day job.

Well, some of these – I mean, I think that there are examples increasingly where – there's multiple uses in in vertical obviously many of the buildings that are mixed use you have a hotel and residential and office and and this is not uncommon retail on the ground floor recreational in between uh dorian and i were in shanghai uh just a few years ago and we had a a very full day tour of the Shanghai Tower, which is the second tallest building in the world in the Pudong area of Shanghai.

We had a full tour from the guts of the building down in the security bowels, if you will, all the way to the very top, which had, like you say, wind power turbines up in the tower.

you know, way up where the wind is obviously the strongest.

Recently, I returned from Shanghai, and I have to say that the experience has left me thinking rather differently about China.

Walking along the Bund, walking across the Huangpu River, and the extraordinary skyline of Pudong, it's impossible not to be struck by China's transformation, but it wasn't simply the skyscrapers that impressed me.

It was the infrastructure, the transport, the cleanliness, the sense that somebody had thought seriously about how a city of this extraordinary size could still function, which left me asking a rather uncomfortable question.

Have we in the West become so preoccupied with the process of government that we've forgotten about its purpose? Surely government should be about providing people's lives, pro- improving people's lives, building infrastructure, and creating opportunities and solving problems.

He's long in Shanghai.

He's credited for creating this, you know, Pudong economic area.

And that's where the fancy airport and all this, you know, maglev trains go to.

So, I mean, he is a very, he understand Chinese financial system.

And I was with this colleague and he went to China a lot and he was very suspicious, very, I don't want to say anti-China, but he, you know, it was almost like, you know, just be careful, you know? And so we got there and it was a pouring rain.

And we were in Shanghai, we were in the Pudong side, I believe.

And we needed to get, he wanted, his goal was when he arrived, he wanted to go to Tony Roma's, which was on the, I think it was on the Puxi side.

And so we got in this car, a driver, and it took us, I'm not kidding, it took us almost two hours.

嗯。

所以只要去一个地方嘛，浦东的一个地方，然后给它一些文件，就一般好像就可以了。

这也算通关吗？

呃，办的时候不算，但是你用通行证去香港，那个算通关。

And also, once again, two men picked him up and offered to take him to the so-called Artillery Division.

Lu's Artillery is a very heavily guarded military facility in Pudong.

The two men walked Huang through the multiple gates without the armed guards even looking at them.

The men led Huang into the office of a highly decorated official named Li Yu-ying and shut the door.

Several dramatic circular approaches helped ensure the main span had sufficient clearance to accommodate 55-ton container ships.

Completed in under three years, the Nanpu stimulated the economic development of Shanghai and fast-tracked the rise and rise of Pudong, China's capital of capital.

The pace of development is not really driven by any special technologies, not even really by sheer labor force.

It's really driven by political will.

Begin on the Bund at dusk.

This historic riverside promenade faces Pudong across the Huangpu River.

Older commercial architecture and the contemporary financial district’s towers come together in a single view.

The following day, slow down in the former French Concession.

So what happened was we had a, a narrow window, but we would have made it.

We get to Frankfurt Airport en route to China, to the main airport in Shanghai, which is beautifully called Pudong, and we get there, and people say, "Yeah, you'll make it.

You'll make it.

You've just gotta go from gate 58 to gate 50."

Uh-

So for me, it's a first

... oh, so we're going to Shanghai Pudong tomorrow night, so we have all morning and some of the afternoon to go out into Frankfurt and bring you the best of Frankfurt we can find with nil notice.

So I'm guessing, despite the nil notice, you've had a few seconds to think about a question.