Which place, Shanghai or Shenzhen, has a prosperous economy and a large city scale?

There's nothing to say about this. Shanghai is a financial center and shipping center built with the strength of China. From this perspective, it is impossible for any city in China to surpass Shanghai at present or even in the future.

The government is the most powerful. For example, China's gold consumption is mainly in Guangzhou/Dongguan/Shenzhen in the south. However, in order to cultivate Shanghai's status as a financial center, the state simply put the gold exchange and steel futures in Shanghai. There is no commodity exchange in South China. It's not that Guangzhou/Shenzhen doesn't want it, but that the country doesn't recognize it. There is another obvious example: Yangshan Port in Shanghai and Beilun Port in Ningbo are world-class natural ports, but the water depth and conditions of Shanghai Port are far less than Beilun Port. However, the country refused Zhejiang's request and set up the bonded port in Shanghai. The government allocated the management right of Yangshan Island, which belongs to Zhejiang, to Shanghai, and invested heavily in the construction of Yangshan Bonded Port to compete directly with Beilun Port.

On the scale of the city, Shenzhen is far less than Shanghai, and Shenzhen is actually very small. Economic prosperity, Shenzhen is not as good as Shanghai. On both sides of the Pujiang River in Shanghai are the Wang Di Tower or Shennan Avenue in Shenzhen, which have become the symbol of China.

But Shenzhen also has its own advantages. Because it is a young city, it is completely a new city established by immigrants from all over the world. It's only been 30 years this year, and the development of private economy can't be compared with that of Shanghai. Moreover, the government is enlightened, does not interfere with the development of private economy, and has little government control, which is a paradise for entrepreneurs.

Look: Tencent Technology-China's largest Internet company, Huawei Technology-made the world's telecom giants fearful, ZTE-and Huawei changed the world's telecom landscape, Thunder Technology-the world's largest download engine developer, China Merchants Bank-the leading joint-stock bank in China, Ping An Insurance-the second largest insurance group in China (the private enterprise with the highest ranking in Forbes list), and EVOC Intelligent-the world. BYD, the world's largest lithium battery manufacturer, these are just some big ones, not to mention the invisible champions (there are too many electronic component champions in Shenzhen/Dongguan).

Let's take a look at Shanghai again. How many large enterprises that can be named are not government? Apart from the online game industry, online games in Shanghai are the best.