Shanghai service industry attracts foreign investment

An unexpected drop in investment in Asia in the April, Xinhua news agency, Shanghai, June 2 The impact of the international financial crisis, Shanghai, like the whole country, attracting foreign investment situation is more serious.　　However, as the service industry showed strong resilience and investment in Europe and the United States continued to increase, Shanghai to attract foreign capital is still better than expected. According to the Shanghai Commerce Committee statistics, in January-April, Shanghai actual position foreign capital 3.381 billion U.S. dollars, compared with the same period last year 3%, higher than the national level of about 24%; new foreign projects 970, down 15.5%, but lower than the national level of nearly 20%　　To attract 4.66 billion U.S. dollars in contract foreign investment, down 11.6%, the decline is also significantly lower than the national level, the scope of contract foreign capital from the previous year's fourth and fifth in the country jumped to second place. Statistics show that, with the manufacturing industry to attract foreign investment in a larger decline, Shanghai service industry to attract foreign investment and strong resilience.　　In January-April, a total of 849 foreign-funded projects in Shanghai, attracting 3.591 billion U.S. dollars in contract, although the year-on-year decline of 4.4%, but the decline is less than 7.2% of the contract foreign investment. Surprisingly, since this year, the United States and Europe to Shanghai, foreign investment has risen, and foreign investment from Asia has declined markedly.　　In January-April, Shanghai attracted 582 million U.S. dollars in contracts from the European Union, rising 3.7% per cent from North America in the same period of 234 million US dollars, up 3.1% per cent, and 4.011 billion per cent in foreign contracts from Asia, down 22.6% from a year earlier. According to the Deputy Secretary-General of Shanghai Municipal government, Shahailin, director of the Municipal Commerce Commission, in the context of the continued spread of the international financial crisis, Shanghai this year to attract foreign investment in three areas of reasonable and effective: first, vigorously develop the headquarters economy, the second is to vigorously develop advanced technology services, the third is