We had only three days in Shanghai. I expected it to be much like Beijing, but it felt both more modern and more crowded. It is the world’s largest city, as measured by population within the city limits (and not metropolitan area — Tokyo is much larger by that metric), and it also boasts some very tall buildings — we took an elevator to the top of the 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center, and then looked up at the 121-story, still-under-construction Shanghai Tower.
We visited Concordia International School, and gave presentations to the elementary school, middle school, and high school.
On our last day, before we caught a train to Lhasa for our tour through Tibet, we managed to meet up with Peggy Lui of the Joint U.S. China Collaboration on Clean Energy (JUCCCE). JUCCCE does some fantastic work with both party leaders and the general Chinese public. You can watch a short interview we did with Peggy here.