Destination: Shanghai
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The world’s fastest train (German-built) covers nineteen miles in seven minutes and twenty seconds at 270 miles per hour.
The world’s longest underwater pedestrian tunnel runs 646.7 meters under the Huangpo River and transports 5,000 people per hour on moving sidewalks.
The world’s longest suspension bridge will soon span ten kilometers and link to a nine-kilometer tunnel to connect Shanghai to Chongming Island, a former bird sanctuary that is being turned into a park.
There has been talk of building a skyscraper more than twice the size of the Petronas Towers, in Kuala Lumpur, that will house 100,000 people in 300 stories.
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