【正】We first visited Shanghai in 1989 when the city was in the throes of redevelopment, a response to Deng Xiaoping’s modernization programmes in agriculture, industry, science and technology, and national defence. Becoming leader of the country in 1978, Deng Xiaoping and the post-Mao leaders immediately put to flight China’s old "closed door" policy, created four Special Economic Zones in South China, designated 14 coastal cities for redevelopment, and opened the redevel