China it's truly a vast and fascinating
country nine million six hundred
thousand square kilometers of land three
million square kilometers of seas and
it's never still changing with the
rotation of the seasons to fly like a
bird is to see things that are beyond
your imagination
because the places he would never before
have trimmed off
and even familiar places when they look
down on them from on high we'll assume a
completely different appearance
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we'll take you to explore places close
at hand and faraway to witness nature
and geography humanity and history join
us as we embark on a unique journey
across the sky
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this is Shanghai the grace metropolis
located on China's east coast at the
points where the Yangtze empties into
the sea the city lies on a plane which
is on average just four meters above sea
level two rivers cross Shanghai the
Sujal and the one cool the area of the
city west of example is called MC and
that to the east
all done we'll begin our journey at the
mouth of the Wankel River and fly
upstream to gain our first sight of
Shanghai extraordinary skyline
here the Yangtze is made by its final
tributary v1 pool the points where the
Yangtze passes the lighthouse and
empties into the East China Sea marks
the end of its 6300 kilometre journey
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the value of the site where Shanghai
stands today was recognized just over a
century ago here the sea connects with
the rest of the world while the Yangtze
provides access to China scintillant
accessibility has been the key to Sun
highs record development
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moving upstream along the pong pool
before long we arrived at the Bund
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more than 20 western-style buildings
come into view along the riverfront
they are the defining image of the band
vonda's just 1,500 meters long yes at
one time half of China's entire world
was concentrated here
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before it's wise the buns was nothing
more than a muddy soul but following the
opium war of 1840 when Shanghai was
forced open up as an International Court
British merchants began taking an
interest in the Straits of riverbank
almost overnight its fate was
transformed
at the southern end of the Bund is the
old meteorological tower dating from the
late 19th century flags flown from the
tower would indicate two ships entering
the port what the weather conditions
were like
originally a huge black iron ball rested
on top of the tower at precisely 12 noon
every day this iron ball would drop
people would sent their timepieces
accordingly
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in 1927 a more modern clock was
installed on another building on the
Bund
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this clock was brought here from the UK
even in the earliest period of
globalization but need to be connected
and keep pace with the rest of the world
was recognized here in Shanghai so
Greenwich Mean Time was adopted with
Shanghai becoming the first recognized
city in the GMT plus 8 times own
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with sun-hi emerging as a major
international port financial
institutions flocked to the bond the
building with the white dome was once
the headquarters of a powerful bank
the neoclassical design exudes an air of
elegance and solemnity
the style has long been adopted by banks
around the world in order to convey the
impression of strength and stability
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versus Shanghai's busiest street
despite originally being part of a
city's french concession for a long time
it was nothing more than a dirt track
where the British walked their horses
because of us it was known as the horse
path
the horse pants would become the
starting point of China's journey to
modernization this route would have
Shanghai's first road lamp and first
tram line eventually it was given the
name it's known by today nanjing road
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next by following Sun highs rivers will
seek out the city's industrial genes
will see how old factory buildings have
become art galleries and our traditional
industries the strivings become City
Hall marks
the Sujal River as the main water we're
connecting Sun high with the surrounding
cities and rural areas before Shanghai
became an international port the river
was known as the musong it was renamed
after foreign settlers and Shanghai
realized that it led to the city of Sao
John
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the end of the Sujal River is marked by
a bridge when this bridge was built in
1907 it was called the by dual or
toll-free bridge no one causing it was
expected to play
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the flu set approaches opened twice a
day to regulate the water level when
it's open it allows the Sujal River to
empty into the much wider Cuong pool but
one pool Riverwood with sausage joo-hyun
province run through the city from west
to east with Sun highs revered
industrial development in the early 20th
century larger waterways were needed for
transporting raw materials and
generating hydroelectric energy the
social River was clearly too small to
serve such purposes so merchants turned
instead to the wine pool
this building with the tall chimneys was
once a power plant it supplied the
current for Shanghai's first electric
lamp today the spacious building
provides the home for works of art
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while old buildings like this have been
given a new lease of life a number of
traditional industries have been
revitalize
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Shipbuilding has been part of the sun-hi
economy for a very long time over a
century ago China's first modern sip
building company was founded right here
on the Wankel River
today there are a few types of sip that
sun-hi cannot build
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work is currently underway on the howl
of a 320 thousand ton oil tanker the
total cost of the order is 80 million US
dollars every year sun-hi y Gao L
shipbuilding company limited builds more
than 20 super large ships like this
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chyna it's truly a vast and fascinating
country nine million six hundred
thousand square kilometers of land three
million square kilometres of seas
and it's never still changing with the
rotation of the seasons to fly like a
bird
is to see things that are beyond your
imagination
you for the places he would never before
have dreamed off
and even familiar places when you look
down on them from on high we'll assume a
completely different appearance
[Music]
we'll take you to explore places close
at hand and faraway to witness nature
and geography humanity and history join
us as we embark on a unique journey
across the sky
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to visit Shanghai is to take a journey
through time the buildings are like
clocks indicating the time they belong
to as we fly among the different
structures we get a sense of how
open-minded the city has always been
even during travel times the old
buildings find sites in themselves also
have amazing stories to tell less than
50 kilometers from central Shanghai is a
quaint old town called George yard yar
before Sun high became an international
port it was known as little so Joel the
town of zhu jia jiao is 1700 years old
in shanghai itself there's an ancient
temple that's just as old
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this is long fire temple said to have
originally been built 1700 years ago in
the Tang Dynasty Emperor's Walzer Tien
had a Buddha Hall built here
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four thousand years visitors have
flocked to Lenoir temple it also where
the locals come in spring to pray for
happiness
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while this city often appears to be
youthful in reality it has a very long
history in central Shanghai there's an
elegant southern style Garden in the
manger estate you you ant was a private
garden today it's an oasis of peace and
tranquility for the people of the city
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you you an garden is a particularly
popular destination during Lantern
Festival
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the festival is dominated by lanterns as
it's the year of the rooster the
lanterns feature roosters
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we hit towards Joel to bridge it fit
that goats can only move in straight
lines so walking across the zigzag
Junction bridge allows you to escape
from these evil spirits
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the tradition of holding a Lenten fare
in you you an Garden dates from the late
Qing Dynasty in this modern era where
change is a constant feature traditions
are especially prized
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as we fly over Shanghai we occasionally
see neatly arranged houses worth red
roofs despite appearances these are not
modern villas they are in fact some of
Shanghai's oldest buildings
before the People's Republic of China
was founded in 1949 they housed 60% of
the city's population
the main entrances feature door frames
made of stones on their newest shackle
men or Stein gate houses
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in the late 19th century the Jamsil
Georgian region was plagued by warfare
so people fled the area in large numbers
for Shanghai their arrival created a
shortage of housing so to save space
houses were built in orderly rows rich
families could buy a number of these
Shuckle men while Laura ones would share
one with several other families
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this particular stone gateway is a
witness to history here in 1921 thirteen
delegates from across the country
founded the Communist Party of China
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twenty-eight years later under his party
the People's Republic of China was
founded
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fascinating old buildings as we found
dotted throughout Shanghai
the Ohel Moshe synagogue close to Jiang
Yan Road one of the city's most famous
sites
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on this wall are inscribed the names of
more than 10,000 Jewish refugees all of
them at one time lived in Shanghai
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and all of them were served at the Ohel
Moshe synagogue during the Second World
War
30,000 Jews arrived in Shanghai having
fled Nazi persecution the city was the
only place in China at the time that
they could enter without a visa
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the sculpture depicts a local Shanghai
woman sheltering a Jewish girl it
illustrates how the city has cared for
persecuted people forced to flee their
homeland Nix will fly to southwestern
Shanghai where we'll get an impression
of how the city looks in the old days
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visit a film park filled with replicas
of famous sights on the bund where
numerous films and television programs
set in Shanghai have been filmed when
recreating old sun-hi in films and on TV
the trolley buses are an essential
feature
with clinical arrangements as few as 10
actors can give the impression of a
bustling Sun high street scene in some
dramas actors are obliged to fly bars
with the help of a wire this isn't the
problem
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with their usual fast pace at riveting
storylines bones about Shanghai are
typically very popular
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China it's truly a vast and fascinating
country nine million six hundred
thousand square kilometers of land three
million square kilometers of seas and
it's never still changing with the
rotation of the seasons to fly like a
bird is to see things that are beyond
your imagination
you for the places he would never before
have dreamed off
and even familiar places which look down
on them from on high will assume a
completely different appearance
[Music]
we'll take you to explore places close
at hand and faraway to witness nature
and geography humanity and history join
us as we embark on a unique journey
across the sky
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next on a shun hi journey we'll visit
the city's financial center from on high
or gain the view of the vertical world's
people have created here
every morning crowds of people catch the
ferry across the Wankel River on their
way to work the ferry used to be the
main means of transport between the two
sides of the van Gogh
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that was until 1976 when the first
bridge was built over the river since
then a new bridge has been built here
every three years
flying over the Luthor bridge we reached
the hearts of Shanghai
here the quantal river takes a 90-degree
turn popularly known as the golden bin
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for many years that bans on the wine
pools West Bank was the wealthiest place
in China but in the 1990s Luger's way on
the east bank took its place this is the
Oriental Pearl Tower the first modern
high-rise on the east bank of the Mongol
the tower was designed to transmit TV
signals across this mass of City bills
at a cost of 800 million un it's the
world's third tallest TV tower in the
evenings the Oriental Pearl Tower
changes color usually it's blue or white
but for holidays it turns pink during
the Beijing Olympics in 2008 the tower
was as red as China's national flag as a
mark of respect following the terrorist
attacks in Paris and 2015 the toffee to
the colors of the French flag such
gestures reveal our loss about the
character of Shanghai's people
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this building dwarfed by skyscrapers is
the historical launchpad of China's
capital market it was in Shanghai in
1990 that the first Stock Exchange of
the People's Republic of China opened to
business this building was completed
just three years later the ground-floor
Hall can accommodate 1600 traders at a
time when the stock exchange first
opened it was overwhelmed by investors
people who had failed to get inside use
for Nautilus to see what was going on
some even traded stocks via walkie
talkies
this is the Gmail tower in Luger's way
standing over 400 meters high with as
tall stately appearance it resembles a
traditional pagoda
the number of floors 88 is symbolic 8 is
a lucky number in China
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yet the man who design the building
wasn't Chinese but American
the people on the edge of the tower are
using the Skywalk
it's an open-air guard spot and pathway
340 meters above the ground
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next to the Jean Marta is the Shanghai
World Financial Center the top of the
building features our trapezoid opening
earning it the nickname the bottle
opener
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like a sail with taller towers the more
winter catches the designer of this 492
meter tower took the bold decision of
leaving an opening at the top by letting
the winds pass through its impact on the
building has been reduced
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it wasn't long however before an even
taller building sprang up beside the
world financial center Shanghai is one
of the tallest cities in the world
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in Shanghai Tower at 650 meters is the
tallest building in China this 127
storey building as a floor space of
500,000 square meters it's capable of
accommodating 30,000 workers at a time
and it's an energy-efficient tower on
the top of the tower there are 270 wind
turbines the energy these generate from
the high altitude winds ours the
lighting formats of the building
on top of the tower there's a spiral
system that traps rain water the water
is channeled into huge tanks which
supply the building with water
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in this part of a city every building is
a financial center in itself as for the
district look jazz way influences every
other part of Shanghai as the city's
financial center it's creating a modern
legend
thirty years ago this was an area of
field the wind shanghai was embarking on
a period of rapid development it
happened to be the right place at the
right time
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even in this modern city the sounds of
traditional matchmaking can still be
heard we'll also hear a song of joy
emanating from a paradise for children
ends well witness a carnival in a
kingdom of animals
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it's generally recognized that the heart
of sun-hi is People's Square located at
the center of a square is a magnificent
building
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Miller square there's a park every
weekend it becomes a matchmaking venue
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however the matchmakers aren't third
parties they're the parents of the
potential couples
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the open umbrellas provide personal
information about the marriage seekers
height career income and of course the
kind of spouse they're looking for
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Asia to the world China it's truly a
vast and fascinating country nine
million six hundred thousand square
kilometers of land three million square
kilometres of seas
and it's never still changing with the
rotation of the seasons to fly like a
bird is to see things that are beyond
your imagination
you for the places he would never before
have dreamed off
and even familiar places when you look
down on them from on high we'll assume a
completely different appearance
[Music]
we'll take you to explore places close
at hand and faraway to witness nature
and geography humanity and history join
us as we embark on a unique journey
across the sky
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next we're flying south to a popular
resort 60 years after Disneyland first
opens in the United States it finally
arrived in Shanghai the tallest building
in Shanghai Disneyland is the enchanted
storybook castle the design is based on
noise chuan Stein castle in Germany
although there is a Chinese edition a
peony at the top
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there's also a park based on traditional
Chinese garden design in every host
country Disneyland attempts to embrace
local features not far from Shanghai
Disneyland there's a United Nations of
animals it brings together creatures
from all over the globe first to greet
us are the Kangaroos the iconic
marsupials from Australia they seem to
be very interested in their drive
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the meerkats from Southern Africa look
both sigh and curious the dark spots
around their eyes at this natural
sunglasses even when the sunlight is
very intense they can look at the Sun
without damaging this sight not all
penguins live in the freezing Antarctic
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bigs Magellanic penguins come from the
temperate zone in South America
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next up the flamingos
name
the ones with pink plumage are greater
flamingos close with red feathers are
American flamingos
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red is not their original color it's a
byproduct of their diet red or orange
particles are broken down and stored in
their bodies to appear sometime later in
their plumage
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large numbers of bears are found in the
park the ones with a V on the fur are
Malayan sundaes those that are dancing a
brown bears
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these immigrants from different
countries sinner certain hobbies in
common
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in return for food they climb trees or
even drive vehicles in these forests
south of the Wankel River lives an
unusual species of small deer like
animal the popular impression of them is
that they're extremely ugly if name in
Chinese junto shall move means head of a
buck eyes of a rat it isn't fair however
to judge things by their appearance
these water deer are very timid animals
they just want to lie low in the forest
the water deer which are native to
Shanghai died out here 100 years ago but
in 2007 20 of them were imported and now
the number has risen to over 300
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there's something captivating about a
city that's forever young Shanghai is
full of vitality and that makes people
forget they're getting old
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dn shan lake on the western outskirts of
shanghai is a popular place for sailing
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and here people run for the simple joy
of it
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people cheer for the team they support
enjoying the competition they also share
a bond for everyone watching this is
their home stadium
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when the lights are turned on Shanghai
becomes even more beautiful and each
pinpoint of light for the story behind
it
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over 20 million people have chosen to
pursue their dreams and burst city
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Shanghai's development is founded on the
accumulation of talent the city has
distinguished itself by bringing
together ideas and sharing resources
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on the last leg of a Shanghai Tower
we'll find at this as a city aiming both
far and high we'll explore the great
potential of the latest science and
technology and will experience China at
high speed we'll also visit an amazing
new project and see how it will bring
the world together
this quiet stretch of land called Chong
Ming island lies at the points where the
Yangtze empties into the sea it's little
more than 40 kilometers from central
Shanghai silt delivered by the Yangtze
continues to build this island up in
fact it's been steadily getting bigger
for the past 1300 years it's currently
expanding towards the East China Sea at
a rate of 200 meters a year
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at the islands easternmost end is dong
tan an area of coastal wetland and
summer this is a quiet place to rest in
late autumn by contrast it's a place of
intense activity where thousands of
migratory birds flock here to pass the
winter during this extraordinary
migration it's the Swans who are to be
the most admired to come all the way
from Siberia covering 1,000 kilometres a
day
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to save their energy during the flights
but cranes use the winds to their
advantage
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verse they do by forming either a
splayed or a herringbone pattern
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Perth's amazing technique has evolved
out of practical necessity
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saying goodbye to the cranes we return
to modern-day Shanghai
this is called the aeroplane building
seen from the air the reason for the
name becomes obvious back in 1932
beginning with the January 28th incident
the Japanese began a series of air raids
on Shanghai this convinced China of the
needs to produce its own aircraft
a year later the aeroplane building was
erected at a cost of 100,000 yuan
flying west we reached China's largest
civil aircraft assembly center
this is the first regional jet made in
China
this one is in the final stages of
assembly
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these gates have been ordered by Chengdu
Airlines
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the c919 aircraft outside the plant are
large commercial planes also made in
China the bulk of the world's passenger
planes are currently manufactured by
Boeing and Airbus but the c919
will soon break this two awfully
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in the western suburbs of Shanghai we
find mount Shashank
rising 100 meters above sea level it's
Sun highs tallest mountain at this
relatively unimpressive height
scientists are working on extending the
limits of human observation here 117
years ago the French established an
astronomical observatory and set up
China's first large telescope who has
made it possible to delve much deeper
into the universe
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today at the foot of Mount Tenma not far
from here
is Asia's largest mobile radio telescope
the telescope receives radio signals
from space signals which may help us
understand what the universe is like 10
billion light-years away in 2013 the
Tian Mar telescope working with five
other telescopes in Beijing seems young
and other reagent helped guide the Chun
er three lunar probe to a precise
landing on the moon
we're about to follow this winding
bridge out across the East China Sea
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it's 32 kilometres long versus the
second longest cross sea bridge in the
world big s shaped design acts to reduce
the frontal impact from ocean currents
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the bridge leads to Xiao Zhong Shan
Island were a world-class container port
is located
the waters around young-sam Porter 16
meters deep sufficient for the world's
largest container ships to dock safely
this super container ship is about 400
meters long and can carry 14,000
standard containers these containers if
they were piled up would reach three
times the height of not to Milan MA
otherwise known as Everest
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every day as many as 45 thousand
containers are moved through yunxiang
yes it's just one part of the Shanghai
port chain the container handling
capacity of sun-hi course accounts for
roughly one-tenth of the world's total
young sandport seen from the air reveals
Shanghai's determination to be a world
leader
sun-hi has developed thanks to its
location on the Yangtze River
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in the course a little more than 100
years it been transformed from small
harbour into one of the world's great
courts
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John High has big dreams yet through its
actions it reveals itself to be very
much down to earth
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