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Two important events helped promote Shanghai's development in the Ming Dynasty.
A city wall was built for the first time in 1554 to protect the town from raids by Japanese pirates.
It measured 10 metres high and 5 kilometres in circumference.
During the Wanli reign ( 1573 – 1620 ), Shanghai received an important psychological boost from the erection of a City God Temple in 1602.
This honour was usually reserved for places with the status of a city, such as a prefectural capital not normally given to a mere county town, as Shanghai was.
It probably reflected the town's economic importance, as opposed to its low political status.
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