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Shanghai.

It was an exceptionally unusual city on the map of Huaxia.

Since opening its port in 1843, Shanghai had begun its journey toward becoming a world-class metropolis.

In just ten years, Shanghai had overtaken Guangzhou to become the country's largest port for foreign trade.

By 2021, Shanghai's GDP had reached 4,321.485 billion yuan, or 669.842 billion US dollars, making it the world's fourth-largest economy, behind only New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles.

As Huaxia's economy continued to develop, Shanghai also had the potential to become the world's largest city economy.

To be frank.

Shanghai's development had followed a complicated course, with both positive and negative aspects.

For example, in its early days, Shanghai had been home to a large comprador class. Wang Kangnian, the notorious figure, had even dared to tamper with the medicines of the troops during the Korean Peninsula campaign.

On the other hand, after the founding of the nation, Shanghai had not been all about lavish living and empty pleasures.

For instance, after the nation was founded, more than a third of Huaxia's national industries and industrial workers were concentrated in Shanghai, making an indelible contribution to the development of Huaxia's modern industry.

For instance, during the development of Two Bombs, One Satellite, the East China Institute of Computing Technology had played an extremely important role.

But whether Shanghai's legacy was positive or negative, the city's ability to develop as it had owed not only to its own foundations and government policies, but also to an important external factor:

It was the mouth of the Changjiang River.

Around six thousand years ago, Shanghai was still beneath the sea. As the vast quantities of silt carried by the Changjiang accumulated at its estuary, the Shanghai delta gradually took shape.

When the land that would become Shanghai first