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Shanghai ramps up efforts to improve Bund

Shanghai’s only curved major road ramp, a big tourist attraction which provides a close-up view of the Bund and its opposite skyscrapers in Pudong, will disappear in three months, a project official said yesterday. ...full story at china.org.cn

from china.org.cn on Thu, Feb 14 2008

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