Land of Hope

The fourth phase of the Yangshan Deep Water Port located in Pudong, the largest automated container terminal in the world
A customer shops online at a supermarket of imported products in the Shanghai FTZ on December 12, 2014
People enjoy reading at Select Zhangjiang, a library in Zhangjiang Innopark in the Pudong New Area, on April 21
China's frist homemade C919 passenger jet rolls off the production line of the Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China Ltd. in Pudong on November 2, 2015
A job fair specifically for foreign job hunters is held at the Shanghai FTZ on May 24

"One would rather have a bed in Puxi than a house in Pudong." This saying for decades reflected the lack of regard for Pudong in Shanghai. Just on the other side of the Huangpu River, Pudong, a sparsely populated farmland area, was long neglected until April 1990 when the Chinese Government decided to set it up as a pilot area for opening up. After 28 years of development, Pudong is now one of the most vigorous centers of finance and hi-tech innovation in the country.

(Photos by Xinhua News Agency)

Copyedited by Rebeca Toledo

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