The cumulative actual use of foreign capital in Shanghai has exceeded 350 billion US dollars. More than 70,000 foreign-funded enterprises have flourished here.

Shanghai has revised and improved its headquarters policies for multinational companies. The city has introduced a series of policies and measures to stabilize foreign investment, such as the "20 Measures" Shanghai will implement the national version of the negative list for cross-border trade in services. It will also implement the country's comprehensive lifting of foreign investment access restrictions in the manufacturing sector.