Over the past decade, however, other coastal cities have begun to thrive, following in Shenzhen's wake. They include Jiaxing and Ningbo on Zhejiang's Hangzhou Gulf, Shanghai and Suzhou in the Yangtze Delta, Beijing and Tianjin along the Bohai Sea, and Dalian and Shenyang in the northeast. The Pearl River Delta, situated in China's southern recesses, it is now not as attractive for foreign investment.
只是近十年來，沿海的後起之秀如浙江環杭州灣的嘉興寧波、長三角的上海蘇州、環渤海灣的北京天津、東北的大連瀋陽...... 等紛紛啟動，珠三角因有位於南方邊陲的侷限，對外資的吸引力無疑已經降低。