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[Music] Shanghai a metropolis of nearly 25 million people to put it in perspective that's bigger than the population of most nations in fact it's just 2 million of the population of Australia nearly 7 million more than the population of the Netherlands and over four times the population of [Music] Singapore Shanghai is China's most populous urban area and it's long been its most Cosmopolitan city as well and it's this Cosmopolitan vibe that inspired Shanghai exper Paul Mike Ashton to coin the playful English Chinese phrase city which went viral [Music] quickly super City you know we're coming off of the edge of a period of time in which China was sort of closed off and we were you know like China was kind of focused on Co there's this push to kind of re-engage and so I think the level of language cross switching there resonated with that in some ways and just the idea of like being back on the global stage being the Gateway of China Shanghai suffered during the covid lockdowns but also benefited when the country pushed to re-engage with the world as China offers longer visa-free entries to more countries shanghai's attractions are filled with foreign tourists again but the tourist numbers only tell half the story since the Draconian Co lockdowns Shanghai has been open for business for over two years now