WHEN you see images of the Bund, or even Nanjing Road, you get the idea.
For lots of people with heart and a pioneering spirit, Shanghai is the city where they forge bonds with China's future.
The whole world wants to keep in step with Shanghai's march to progress. From the East to the West, enterprising people with money and those others who are simply economic adventurers are making sure they will not let opportunity pass. And no one wants to be disappointed. Not in Shanghai. Not in this era.
The city, at the mouth of the Yangtze River, is humming with life. Alive with promise.
More than others, China's leaders know this great city's importance to the nation.
President Jiang Zemin, an electrical engineer, was Shanghai's mayor in 1985, before becoming deputy secretary, and, afterwards, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee.