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According to statistics, in the first quarter this year,
the tertiary industry exceeded 70% of foreign investment attracted and
solicited in Shanghai for the first time. Among them, modern service
industries increased sharply by 1.9 times year-on-year as represented by
finance and logistics. From Jan. to March this year, Shanghai approved 861
foreign-invested projects and attracted contractual foreign investment of
USD3.772b, up by 18.8% year-on-year. And actual foreign investment in
place exceeded USD2.2b, up by more than 10% year-on-year. Foreign-invested
projects with increase of investment centralized in financial service,
wholesale and retail business while newly approved large projects in
transportation, warehouse and postal business, lease and commercial
business and real estate. The actual percentage of the tertiary industry
among the attracted and solicited foreign investment was 71.2%. From Jan.
to March contractual foreign investment of financial service projects
approved by Shanghai amounted to
USD200m. |