上海市韩正市长在作政府工作报告时指出：坚持以开放促转型，深刻把握国际经济环境的新变化，全力做好对外经贸工作；继续优化外贸结构，扩大服务贸易规模，发展离岸金融和离岸贸易；优化吸收外资结构，抓住世博会外商云集的机会，创新引资方式，大力吸引跨国公司地区总部、投资性公司、营运中心、研发中心和结算中心，引导外资投向现代服务业、高新技术产业和先进制造业。同时，他表示，鼓励有条件的各种所有制企业“走出去”，进一步做好外事工作，继续扩大与港澳台地区的经贸往来合作，更好地服务长三角、服务长江流域、服务全国；围绕共同办博和推进区域一体化，深入开展交通、科技、环保、能源、旅游等重点专题合作，促进长三角一体化发展。

　　Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng pointed out at his government report, we should insist to using opening-up to stimulate transaction, understand the new changes of international economical environment thoroughly, and try our best to do the international business, continue to optimize export trade structure, expand service industry scale, develop off-shore market and off-shore trade; we also should optimize foreign capital absorbing structure, take the advantages of the opportunity that foreign businessmen gathering in Shanghai during Expo, innovate the measures to attract investment, attract multinational corporations regional headquarters, investment firms, operation center, research & development center and accounting center, lead the foreign capital to invest to the modern service industry, new hi- tech industry and advanced manufacturing industry. Meanwhile, he said, we should encourage all the conditional ownership enterprises to go outside China to do the foreign business, continue to expand the cooperation with Hongkong, Macao, Taiwan, offer better service to Yangtze River Delta, Yangtze River catchment, and whole nation; center on organizing the Expo 2010 shanghai together and promoting integration of regional economy, make further cooperation about transportation, technology, environment protection, energy and tourism, etc, in order to promote the development of Yangtze River Delta.