Dubai Island Gets Shanghaied – Cao Qian

From Shanghai Daily:

A Wenzhou developer is taking the Huangpu River all the way to Dubai. The Zhejiang Zhongzhou Group plans to build an S-shaped waterway simulating Shanghai’s famous river in the World Islands project off the coast of the United Arab Emirates , company Chairman Hu Bin told Shanghai Daily yesterday.

Island Shanghai – which comprises nine manmade islets linked by bridges – will feature architecture similar to that found along the city’s Bund and even a smaller version of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower . [Full Text]

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