Related News
China's Q1 FDI jumps 11.3%
Online Edition
Foreign direct investment (FDI) on the Chinese mainland jumped 11.3 percent year on year in the first three months of 2015, settling at US$34.88 billion, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced Thursday.
The pace slowed from the 17 percent increase registered in January-February period, however, it far exceeded the annual growth rate posted for 2014 of 1.7 percent.
Service industry FDI totaled US$21.59 billion in the first quarter, up 24.1 percent year on year. This accounted for 61.9 percent of all FDI during the period. In the service sector, financial services, distribution and transport services attracted the most investment.
Manufacturing FDI was down 3.6 percent year on year to US$11.22 billion during the period. It accounted for 32.2 percent of the total FDI.
Along with the FDI surge, the number of newly registered foreign-funded companies increased 22.4 percent in the first three months of the year, totaling 5,861, the data showed.
China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), Republic of Korea, China's Taiwan district, Singapore, Japan, the US, Germany, Britain, France and Saudi Arabia were the top ten contributors during the period.
Thursday's data also showed outbound direct investment (ODI) by non-financial firms surged 29.6 percent to US$25.79 billion in the first quarter.
China's overall ODI has accumulated to US$672.1 billion by the end of March this year.
China has become a net capital exporter for the first time, with ODI outnumbering capital inflows in 2014.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
