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　　to its position in the middle of China’s prosperous eastern seaboard. Growth has also

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　　thanks to improved ground transportation: A new bullet train linking Nanjing and Shanghai started service last year,

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　　travel time between the cities from several hours to just 75 minutes, and a Beijing-Shanghai high-speed line is

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　　to open later this year, with a stop in Nanjing. Within the city, two metro lines were built in the last few years; 15 more are planned to begin service by 2030.

　　Signs of Nanjing’s

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　　wealth and optimism can be seen everywhere. In the heart of the downtown Xinjiekou district, a bronze statue of Sun Yat-sen,

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　　the father of modern China, looks

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　　over a busy

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　　area.

　　There is perhaps no more

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　　symbol of the city’s transformation than the Zifeng Tower, a 1,480-foot skyscraper that opened its doors last May.

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　　offices, restaurants and an InterContinental hotel, the tower is the second-tallest building in China and billed as the seventh-tallest in the world.

　　Underlying all this development is a large Chinese and

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