The Farmers from Beijing go to Shanghai

I went on my first trip in China last weekend to Shanghai. My roommate, Davide, has a bunch of friends in Shanghai so we had a place to crash when we went there. After being in Beijing for over a month, I guess I have adapted to the life here in Beijing. I experienced a bit of a shock in Shanghai because it is much more "city-like" and much more hustle-bustle. There is obviously much more western influence in Shanghai. It was noticeable in the architecture and prices. The first day we got there, we went to a shopping center and had dinner there. I was joking around when I approached an escalator and acted as if I had never seen one before. I guess it was only funny for Davide and I. The ironic thing is that we had a bunch of farmers who all had orange baseball hats on and were guided by a tour guide of some sort on our flight back to Beijing who must have never flown before. When we got off the plane and proceeded to baggage claim within a sea of people, a little old lady walked up to the escalator and stopped dead in her tracks! She was absolutely terrified to get on the moving stairs and I thought it was the funniest thing since I felt a little how she felt when i got to Shanghai. But I do feel bad for laughing...but i wasn't the only one laughing.
China's growth is apparent in the photo above. The skyline that you see didn't exist 20 years ago! Now they are building the Tallest building in the world! They broke ground on the skyscraper around July of 2006, now, less than a year later it about the same height as the tallest building in Shanghai. 88 (more or less) floors in less than a year! Impressive.