摘要
＂Although human resource costs are generally going up in China, the costs in the Yangtze River Delta （YRD） area have been rising even faster＂ says Liu Yuansen, a member of the Shanghai representative office of the lapan External Trade Organization. At pres- ent, Shanghai and its surrounding area is home to at least half of the roughly 20,000 Japanese-invested companies in China. But for the small and mediumsized Japanese-invested companies, this area is losing its low cost advantage, particularly in terms of human resources and land. Last year, Japanese investment in China increased but the growth rate declined. In Shanghai＇s neighboring province of liangsu, the number of lapanese manufacturing enterprises has reportedly started to decline.
