将北京和上海两城市放在同一个层面进行比较一直是媒体和社会学家们常谈常新的话题。90年代初期,一本《城市季风》将人们的目光聚集到了两个城市的社会文化上;90年代末期,大批企业迁都的事实引发了两地媒体对城市经济发展的争论,“谁是未来经济之都”的论题让当时的编辑、记者们兴奋异常。 The comparison of Beijing and Shanghai on the same level has always been a topic of constant discussion among media and sociologists. In the early 1990s, a “city monsoon” brought people’s attention to the social and cultural aspects of the two cities. In the late 1990s, the fact that a large number of enterprises relocated their capital triggered controversy over the urban economic development between the two cities. "Who is the future economy? The topics of the capital so that the editors and reporters excited at the time.