Shanghai remains China’s luxury spending capital, even with lingering economic uncertainty, and continues to attract new high-end hotels, restaurants and retail projects to be revealed ...

Shanghai’s equivalent of the Manhattan skyline and the 623-metre Shanghai Tower, ... Before that, there were only farmhouses and rice fields," she says. Green urban jungle.

China issued its first national drought alert of the year last week, after areas, including Shanghai in the Yangtze Delta region and Sichuan in south-west China, experienced weeks of extreme heat.

The skyline of the Chinese city Shanghai will not be lit up for two nights. It's part of a string of measures nationwide as China deals with power shortages caused by its worst heat wave on record.