The business side of the trip involved company visits in Beijing and Shanghai with Chinese and foreign businesses in various fields.
Shanghai plans to be an international finance center by 2020, and creating a board on the Shanghai Stock Exchange where foreign companies can list their shares is seen as an essential component.
"America had better wake up to this likelihood, " said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom at a green technology summit last month in Shanghai aimed primarily at foreign investors interested in entering China's burgeoning cleantech industry.
Shanghai expects 60% of foreign-financed firms to have unions by the end of this year and 80% at the end of 2007.
"They'll be in a position to profit from the big-growth markets, which are the major U.S cities plus foreign destinations like Shanghai, " said aviation consultant Michael Boyd.
"If you are looking for a support level for the onshore yuan, just look at the offshore market, " said a Shanghai-based trader with a foreign bank.
Ever since China opened its doors for business in 1978, there have been foreign workers in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other large Eastern coastal cities.
Shen Danyang, a ministry spokesman, told Shanghai Daily that China had developed more sources of foreign investment.
In January inspectors from the Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Administrative Bureau began an investigation of foreign designer clothing.
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From May China will be visited by a series of foreign leaders going to the World Expo in Shanghai.
As I often tell foreign audiences, China is not just Beijing, Shanghai and a handful of major international cities.
Recent reports from three lobbies for foreign businesses, the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, the European Chamber of Commerce in China and the US-China Business Council, bear out this gloomy view.
China's Shanghai Composite Index edged up 0.2% after data showing foreign direct investment flows into the country rose more than expected.
The bottom line: If continued, sales of Chinese listed banks shares by foreign institutional investors could cause a major correction of the Shanghai and Hong Kong Exchanges.
Shanghai's Pudong district, across the Huangpu river from the old foreign bank buildings on the Bund, shows just how serious China is: a Hong Kong-style skyline of towering buildings, including one housing the largest stockmarket trading-floor in the world, all of it built in just the past decade.
Mr. Ahmadinejad, in his first foreign trip since the vote, arrived in Yekaterinburg, Russia, for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit of emerging nations.
The Chinese government wants more foreign multinationals to set up their regional corporate headquarters in its shining 21st Century super city Shanghai this year.
The latest trend is for foreign investment flows into second and third tier cities rather than the major eastern seaboard cities like Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.
Some foreign basketball players aren't exactly roughing it in the more-cosmopolitan cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
The Shanghai All Ordinaries Index, a composite of A- and B-shares that are designated for domestic and foreign traders respectively, rose nearly 70% in the period.
Mr Moon's representatives initially hawked the idea around Beijing and Shanghai, where officials were sceptical about the ability of a church with no car-making experience to pioneer a foreign car industry in China.
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