The Greater Shanghai Nexus: How China's Economic Capital Reshapes Its Periphery The 1+8 Metropolis: Shanghai's Expanding Sphere of InfluenceThe Yangtze River Delta region, comprising Shanghai and eight surrounding cities (Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Nantong, Ningbo, Jiaxing, Huzhou, and Zhoushan), now functions as a single econom
