TEN years ago, the entire Minhang District occupied 370-squarekilometers of which its urban area covered just 15 square kilometers.Today the Minhang 130-square-kilometer urban district tastefully abounds in high-rise buildings, national level industrial parks, and neat, broad streets,”says Shanghai Minhang District Chief Executive Wang Hongquan proudly, as he stands before a scale model of this burgeoning district. Minhang is destined to become a major facet of Shanghai's ongoing expansion into an international economic, finance, trade and shipping center.