The Shanghai Effect: How China's Economic Powerhouse is Reshaping the Yangtze River Delta

Section 1: Economic Integration and Specialization1.1 Industrial Complementarity:- Shanghai's financial services (handling 40% of China's cross-border transactions)- Jiangsu's advanced manufacturing (contributing ¥3.2 trillion to regional GDP)- Zh

Metropolitan Symbiosis: Shanghai's Evolving Relationship With the Yangtze River Delta

The lights of Shanghai's skyscrapers don't stop at the city limits—they cast their glow across 35 million square kilometers of the Yangtze River Delta, where 22 cities and 160 million people participate in history's most ambitious regional integr