FDI 2017

In 2017, 35,652 enterprises (excluding banking, securities and insurance) with foreign direct investment were established, an increase of 27.8 percent over the previous year; and the foreign direct investment actually utilized was 877.6 billion yuan($131.0 billion), up by 7.9 percent, 3.8 percentage points faster than last year.

Specifically, there were 3,857 newly established enterprises receiving direct investment from countries along the Belt and Road, up by 32.8 percent; and the foreign capital directly invested in China was 37.4 billion yuan($5.6 billion). In 2017, the foreign investment actually utilized by high technology manufacturing industry reached 66.6 billion yuan, up by 11.3 percent.

From January to December, the top ten nations and regions with investment in China (as per the actual input of foreign capital) were as follows: Hong Kong (USD98.92b), Singapore (USD4.83b), Taiwan province(USD4.73b) , R.O.K.(USD3.69b) , Japan (USD3.27b) , U.S.A. (USD3.13b) , Netherlands (USD2.17b) , Germany (USD1.54b) , the U.K. (USD1.5b) and Denmark (USD820m). The total of actual investment input from these sources accounted for 95.1 percent of the total of actually input foreign or regional investment in the country.