上海市韓正市長在作政府工作報告時指出：堅持以開放促轉型，深刻把握國際經濟環境的新變化，全力做好對外經貿工作；繼續優化外貿結構，擴大服務貿易規模，發展離岸金融和離岸貿易；優化吸收外資結構，抓住世博會外商云集的機會，創新引資方式，大力吸引跨國公司地區總部、投資性公司、營運中心、研發中心和結算中心，引導外資投向現代服務業、高新技術產業和先進制造業。同時，他表示，鼓勵有條件的各種所有制企業“走出去”，進一步做好外事工作，繼續擴大與港澳臺地區的經貿往來合作，更好地服務長三角、服務長江流域、服務全國；圍繞共同辦博和推進區域一體化，深入開展交通、科技、環保、能源、旅游等重點專題合作，促進長三角一體化發展。

　　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.