Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in the January-July period this year totaled RMB 496.71 billion ($72.3 billion), up 2.3 percent year on year, with a total of 35,239 new companies set up by foreign investment in China, rising by 99.1 percent year on year, as announced by China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC).
In particular, in the given period the direct investments made in China by Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, the US, the UK and Macao China increased by 1.5 percent, 23.5 percent, 30.6 percent, 36.5 percent, 12 percent, 86.1 percent and 77.4 percent, respectively, year on year.