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'Shanghai' was likely stated to make it more easily place-able in the mind of the reader.

• chrischen 16y ago
  They might as well have said 'China.'
• barkingcat 16y ago
  this is totally WRONG - it's 1000km away. It's like saying "Microsoft is headquartered in San Francisco" to make Seattle easily place-able in the mind of the reader.
  • phlux 16y ago
    I get that, I am saying they did it on purpose regardless.
    • barkingcat 16y ago
      no my point is that the author most likely got the wrong information than having done it on purpose. I can understand a person not being fluent in a foreign language, but I can't understand a person misrepresenting a distance of 1000km on purpose. Most likely it was just bad editing/bad writing - and it's unconscionable to explain it away as "on purpose". And by the way, the original article now has the corrected location: Changsha It wasn't on purpose - just a mistake.