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century grew in importance due to its favorable location as a trade port and later become a very important financial and business center. The image to the upper right is a view of the Pudong skyline. The city consists of 18 distrcits and 1 county.
The nicknames for Shanghai used in the English speaking countries include “Paris of the East” and “Whore of Orient”
Shanghai acted as an extremely important hub for everything modern that was installed into the Chinese culture. This includes the birth of modern art and technological advances. The first modern vehicle (car) was also ridden in Shanghai for the first time all over the country country.
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