Departures
Pictured: Below left: city centre Shanghai; Below: densely populated Guangzhou; Bottom: the Hong Kong waterfront
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Shanghai Shanghai showcased its global influence in commerce, finance, fashion and research when it staged Expo 2010 this year. Indeed, it has been a conduit for trade between East and West since the Treaty of Nanking opened up the country to foreign exporters in 1842. The city has undergone widespread redevelopment as a result of China’s economic reforms, its modern architecture co-existing with historic landmarks such as the Bund and City God Temple. At the mouth of the Yangtze River, Shanghai has ranked as one of the busiest cargo ports on earth since 2005. Increasing its role in financial services, and as
a location for corporate headquarters, the metropolis also has a number of bustling industrial zones. From London Heathrow, Virgin flies to Shanghai daily – Air China code-sharing on the route – with British Airways operating five times a week, and China Eastern four times a week. Air France operates 14 services weekly from Paris CDG, KLM flies 12 times a week from Amsterdam Schiphol, and Finnair and Lufthansa have daily departures from Helsinki and Frankfurt respectively. Emirates offers a double-daily frequency out of Dubai, and Qatar Airways serves Shanghai daily from its Doha home hub.
Shenzen From a small fishing village in the 1970s, Shenzen has been transformed into one of the world’s fastest-growing cities by significant foreign investment, claiming to build ‘one high- rise a day and one boulevard every three days’. Southern China’s main financial centre and an important container port, it is also a manu- facturing giant, the Shenzen Hi-tech Industrial Park hosting companies in the biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, building, chemicals, computer software, electronics, medical equipment and telecoms sectors. With no direct services between the UK and Shenzen, travel is via a major Chinese gateway.
THE CARBON COST
THE table below shows the distance covered by a return flight between London and the destination, along with the approximate carbon emissions and the cost of offsetting it with TheCarbonNeutralCompany. See
www.carbonneutral.com for more information.
Beijing
Chongqing Guangzhou Hong Kong Shanghai Shenzen
17,795km 18,634km 19,070km 19,334km 18,510km 19,278km
1.47t 1.54t 1.70t 1.73t 1.54t 1.72t
£14.70 £15.40 £17.00 £17.30 £15.40 £17.20
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