Plans in hand for 1930 embrace a number of projects which will' materially alter Shanghai's skyline, We ahall nave the, fine new Hotel Metropole and the Hamilton House, at the intersection of Kiangae and Foochow Roads, The Auditorium Roi Albert, the new Carlton Toeatre on Avenue Joifze, and. the Nanking Theatre on Avenue Edward will be distinct additions to Shanghai's amusement palaces. There will be anew department store in the shopping district; a Chinese Y.M.CA. on Boulevard do Mon-new eightstorey office building in the vicinity " of Avenue Edward; a new" tel Phone building" in the" conceal district; the new building of the Shanghai Power Company on Nan king Road; and if plans mature, a fine new bank and ofice building towering. sixteen storeys above. the French Bund, again setting a new record for building heights Shanghai _Apartment buildings make a story in themselves. Among the illuateations is shown the Propriété Bearn, 4 new 18.8, building which wil eceapy the, block along Joffre, Dubail, and Tillot—a building cov. ving several mow, providing eighty apartments and fifteen shops, cost seven lakhs. The extensive Pearce Apartments in Quinsan Garden are alrendy on the way, as neo also the apartment buildings at the end of Avenue Joffre and on Rout de Say Zoong. Other larger apart. ment buildings will include a group "on Route Pichon and a nine storey building on Route Dufour near Avenue Joffre, For some years past it has beea estimated that urban Shanghai has 4 population of about 2,000,000, The at these figures are far too conservative, and make Greater Shanghai the sixth city of the world with 2,726,806 inhabitants, exceeds only by London, New York, Berlin, Chicago, and Paris. What then of the one-time estimate of 23500,000 of 19502 Perhaps we would. better our figure at five millions, or mare. Of the population of 2,12%.~ 806 the census shows that 47,769 are classified as foreigners, Many causes are given as contri-Dating to the steady. growth of the city. The troubled conditions of China in the past have made it, an asylum for those needing protection; and those entering the city in this way generally remain permanently. The strategic location of the city has made it a logical me-tropalls, and the population erowding in from time to time has. been easily accommodated in its industry find commerce. But the growth of the city has been and will continue through other and _happie eauses—the increase inthe indus ty, commerce ant importance the city which ie alvoady the metropolis of Asia. much publicity years. Tt seems now that industry has evolved a programme which will defeat the tari' wall—the exportaion of entire factories and systems of manufacture, to produce the ar-tides of commerce in the countries of consumption. So we already find branch factories ix Shanghai ant vicinity; and this is only the begin ing. The increase in.the tariff, of which we have soon the first ins in. 1929, will without doubt bring many industries to this city. patriotism may to do swith: Shang.
industrial future. Only cently have the Chinese begun make it a matter of national pride to. patronize home industries. Pa-mag well as tant? saving moves, will Uring more industries into Shanghai, many under purely Chinese control and manegement and many in ce-operation with for-ign interests "We shall in the next two decades have to provide for sin additional huave inthe Shanghai vicinity. Ssu pulation of one or bro millions oF
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