pudong new area

If you remember the post from July 29th where I quoted population numbers for Shanghai at 13 million making it the largest populated city in the world. Here is the astonishing thing about the Pudong New Area which the city was built.  This city was built in the last 16 years with the most construction taking place in the last ten years.



The area across the across the Huangpu river is what Pudong looked like in 1990