Shanghai's Sprawling Influence: How the Mega-City is Redefining Regional Development

The Yangtze River Delta region surrounding Shanghai has quietly become the world's most economically powerful city cluster, generating nearly $4 trillion in annual GDP - surpassing entire nations like Germany and Japan in economic output. According

Beyond the City Limits: How Shanghai Is Reshaping Its Periphery in the Yangtze River Delta Integration Plan

Section 1: The 1+8 Metropolitan Circle StrategyShanghai's official integration plan with eight surrounding cities:- Population: 82 million across 35,800 square kilometers- Economic output: ¥15.3 trillion (comparable to Italy's GDP)- Key integratio