--FILE--(de gauche) vue de la nuit de Mirae Asset Tower, Tour Aurora, Jinmao Tower, Tour de Citi, le Shanghai World Financial Center et luxe residentia
--FILE--(From left) Night view of Mirae Asset Tower, Aurora Tower, Jinmao Tower, Citi Tower, the Shanghai World Financial Center and luxury residential apartment buildings of Tomson Riviera in the Lujiazui Financial District in Pudong, Shanghai, China, 13 July 2009. From building the worlds biggest dam to engineering blue skies for the Olympics, Chinas leaders have earned a reputation for achieving improbable goals. So when the Chinese government declared last April it wanted to make Shanghai an international financial center by 2020, the news sent a ripple of anxiety through Hong Kong. The authorities were anointing Shanghai as the countrys financial center and Hong Kong, the financial metropolis on Chinas southern coast, seemed sure to lose out. Shanghai is indeed working hard to transform itself into the regions New York. New skyscrapers continue to rise, meant to be the Asian headquarters for international banks.
