Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in July of the current year totaled $7.81 billion, down 16.95 percent year on year, as announced by China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) on August 18. In the January-July period of the current year, FDI in China totaled $71.14 billion, down 0.35 percent year on year.
In the January-July period of the year, around $39.72 billion of the total FDI went into China's services industry, while FDI in Chinese manufacturing declined by 14.26 percent year on year to $25.2 billion. Meanwhile, overseas foreign direct investment by Chinese companies in the January-July period totaled $52.55 billion, up four percent year on year.