In 2020, the flow scale of China's foreign direct investment ranked first in the world for the

On September 29, the statistical bulletin of China's foreign direct investment in 2020 (hereinafter referred to as the bulletin) jointly issued by the Ministry of Commerce, the National Bureau of statistics and the State Administration of foreign exchange showed that China's foreign direct investment in 2020 was US $153.71 billion, a year-on-year increase of 12.3%, and the flow scale ranked first in the world for the first time.

The communique pointed out that at the end of 2020, China's stock of foreign direct investment reached US $2.58 trillion, second to the United States (US $8.13 trillion) and the Netherlands (US $3.8 trillion). China's influence in global foreign direct investment continues to expand, and the flow accounts for more than 10% of the world for five consecutive years, accounting for 20.2% in 2020; The stock accounted for 6.6%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points over the previous year. In 2020, China's two-way investment will be basically flat, and the introduction and going out will develop simultaneously.

From the perspective of investment field, China's foreign investment field is becoming more and more extensive, and the structure is constantly optimized. According to the communique, in 2020, China's foreign direct investment will cover 18 industry categories of the national economy, and nearly 70% of the investment will flow to leasing and business services, manufacturing, wholesale and retail, and finance. The flow of the four major industries will exceed US $10 billion. By the end of 2020, 80% of China's foreign direct investment stock was concentrated in the service industry, mainly in the fields of leasing and business services, wholesale and retail, information transmission / software and information technology services, finance, real estate, transportation / warehousing and postal services.

From the perspective of investors, the foreign investment of non-public economy and public economy holding entities go hand in hand. According to the communique, in China's foreign non-financial investment flows in 2020, domestic investors with non-public economic control invested US $67.16 billion, accounting for 50.1%, a year-on-year increase of 14.1%; Domestic investors controlled by the public economy invested US $66.89 billion, accounting for 49.9%, a year-on-year increase of 15.1%.

The communique also one shows that China's one belt, one road, and other countries along the way have been steadily increasing in investment. By the end of 2020, 28000 Chinese domestic investors had established 45000 foreign direct investment enterprises in 189 countries (regions) around the world. More than 80% of the world's countries (regions) had Chinese investment, and the total assets of overseas enterprises at the end of the year were US $7.9 trillion. In one belt, one road, more than 1.1 overseas enterprises were established. In 2020, the direct investment of US $22 billion 540 million was 20.6%, representing an increase of 14.7% over the same period. At the end of the year, the stock was US $2007.9 billion, accounting for 7.8% of the total stock. China's total investment one belt, one road and another one was directly invested from 2013 to 2020, 139 billion 850 million US dollars.

At the same time, the mutually beneficial and win-win effect of China's foreign investment is prominent to achieve common development. The communique points out that in 2020, overseas Chinese enterprises will pay a total of US $44.5 billion in taxes to the countries and regions wher they invest, employing 2.218 million foreign employees, accounting for 60.6% of the total number of employees of overseas enterprises. Foreign investment led to the export of domestic goods of US $173.7 billion, accounting for 6.7% of China's total export value. Overseas Chinese funded enterprises achieved sales revenue of US $2.4 trillion in that year. (reporter Wang Wenbo)