Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in the January-April period this year totaled $45.14 billion, up 3.5 percent year on year, with a total of 13,039 new companies set up by foreign investment in China, as announced by China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC).
In particular, in the given period the direct investments made in China by Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, the US and Germany increased by 3.9 percent, 114.1 percent, 3.0 percent, 24.3 percent and 101.1 percent, respectively, year on year.