ABSTRACT
In a short time, Dr. V. K. Ting, Mayor of Greater Shanghai, managed to lay the foundations of an important constructive work. In association with the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Hsu Yuan, he succeeded after prolonged negotiations with the consular corps of Shanghai in reaching a solution, very favourable to the Chinese, of the old and very delicate question of the Mixed Courts, as they are called, In Shanghai. Ting was succeeded by the recently deceased General Huang Fu, who was the first Mayor of Shanghai to be appointed by the new Nationalist Government at Nanking. There is a scheme to connect Shanghai with Pootung by two tunnels under the river. As soon as this has been done the rate of growth of Greater Shanghai would be nearly doubled. There can be no doubt that the Chinese plan for Greater Shanghai points the way out of the congestion in which the city now fights for air and elbow-room.
