SHANGHAI,China’s Emerging Cosmopolitan

A t an invitation from the Chinese People’s As- sociation for Friendship with Foreign Coun-tries (CPAFFC), I and four of my colleagues, allof them members of the Sri Lanka-China Society,had the opportunity to visit China recently and towitness the enormous development that had takenplace there. One of our itineraries, the City of Shanghai,which is the largest and also the main commercialcentre in China with a population of around16.74m, is situated almost mid way between t…