China's foreign direct investment keeps increasing in 8 consecutive years

Xinhua News Agency, Xiamen, September 5 (reporter Tetrarch Mengzhaoli) The Ministry of Commerce, the National Bureau of Statistics, the State administration of foreign exchange 5th in Xiamen issued a joint, 2009 China's foreign direct investment of 56.53 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 1.1%, so far China's foreign direct investment has been maintained for 8 consecutive years of growth.　　According to the bulletin, China's foreign direct investment in 2009 again high, the net foreign direct investment of 56.53 billion U.S. dollars, including non-financial category of 47.8 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 14.2%, accounting for 84.5%, the financial category of 8.73 billion U.S. dollars, the year-on-year decline of 37.9%, accounting for 15.5%. The bulletin shows that the scale of China's foreign direct investment has increased significantly from the previous year, and the country distribution is more extensive. In 2009, China's foreign direct investment stock was more than 200 billion U.S. dollars, Asia, Latin America is a highly concentrated area of stocks.　　By the end of 2009, China's 12,000 domestic investors in 177 countries and regions in the world set up 13,000 foreign direct investment enterprises, investment coverage of 72.8%, the total amount of foreign direct investment of 245.75 billion U.S. dollars, foreign enterprises assets of more than 1 trillion U.S. dollars. From the distribution area, China's foreign direct investment has the highest investment coverage in Asia and Africa, reaching 90% and 81.4% respectively.　　Of these, Asia is the most concentrated area for China to set up foreign enterprises. It is noteworthy that, with the past China's rapid growth in Asia, Africa, the difference is that last year, China's investment in Europe, North America, Latin America grew rapidly, which invested 3.35 billion U.S. dollars in Europe, an increase of 282.8%, Invest 1.52 billion dollars in North America, Grow 3.2 times times, invest 7.33 billion dollars in Latin America and grow 1 time times.