Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in the January-March period of the year totaled $35.8 billion, up 3.7 percent year on year, with a total of 9,616 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 South Korea, Japan, the US, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands increased by 79.6 percent, 6.4 percent, 71.3 percent, 86.1 percent, 12.4 percent and 74.2 percent, respectively, year on year.