With the gleaming skyscrapers in Pudong and its conveyor belt of new restaurants from all over the world, Shanghai has an air of easy cosmopolitanism that makes Beijing seem the provincial city.

• 浦东光彩夺目的摩天大楼，来自全球各地、鳞次栉比的新餐馆，让上海散发出从容自在的国际风范，相比之下，北京就像一个省会城市。