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Shanghai and the YRD still offer many opportunities to the foreign investor-especially the careful, well-informed investor. You need to take time to study all the angels, and ensure that your plans and operations are based on the best possible information and professional advice. The YRD includes many alternatives beyond Shanghai, with regional cities all having successfully ridden on the city's 1980's coattails, and having been in the business of servicing foreign direct investment themselves for 25 years. For sure, Shanghai is not the only game in town, glitzy and cosmopolitan as it may be. Manufacturing operations certainly would do well to consider the regional cities to truly take advantage of the "low cost manufacturing" phenomena that China offers, while service companies may well prefer to develop from what is undoubtably the Yangtze River delta’s beating heart. We hope that this article, and our new book, will help you to plan your China business.