Can a foreign company that pays social security in Beijing buy a house in Shanghai?

Shanghai requires five years of social security to buy a house, so you can't buy a house in Shanghai if your social security is paid in Beijing.

Beijing is the capital of the People's Republic of China, a provincial administrative region, a municipality directly under the central government, a national center, a mega-city, the State Council approved the determination of China's political center, a cultural center, a center of international communication, and a center of scientific and technological innovation. The topography of Beijing is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. It is surrounded by mountains in the west, north and northeast, and in the southeast is a plain that slopes gently toward the Bohai Sea.