Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in January-May period of the current year totaled $54.61 billion, up 3.7 percent year on year, with a total of 16,460 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, the UK and Germany increased by 3.7 percent, 88.1 percent, 18.9 percent, 7.5 percent, 9.2 percent and 100.8 percent, respectively, year on year.