From Marsh to Miracles.

NATION When guests from around the world arrived at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport recently to par- ticipate in the Third China International Import Expo (CIIE), few could have imagined that this bustling aviation hub on the bank of the Yangtze River used to be a tidal flat till the late 1990s. In the 1990s, the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and the Shanghai Futures Exchange were established in Pudong and a national-level financial market took shape in Shanghai. Entering the 21st century, with the es-tablishment of the Shanghai Gold Exchange and the China Financial Futures Exchange, Pudong's financial market further expand- ed. [Extracted from the article]