Investing Offsets Yangtze Delta's Export Slide

By staff reporter Chen Zhongxiaolu

(.com.cn) Despite shrinking foreign demand for locally manufactured products, GDP in the Yangtze River Delta region rose 9.2 percent in the first half of 2009, according to the city of Wuxi's Bureau of Statistics.

That growth rate was 3.6 percentage points below what the delta posted during the same period 2008, but was still 2.1 percentage points higher than the national average for the January-June period.