Ministry of Commerce: China's foreign direct investment reached 206.14 billion yuan in the firs

According to the Ministry of Commerce's website on April 25, the head of the Department of foreign investment and economic cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce talked about China's foreign investment and cooperation in the first quarter of 2021. The person in charge pointed out that in the first quarter of 2021, China's foreign direct investment was 206.14 billion yuan (equivalent to 31.79 billion US dollars), a year-on-year increase of 4.6%.

According to reports, in the first quarter of 2021, China's foreign direct investment was 206.14 billion yuan (equivalent to 31.79 billion US dollars), a year-on-year increase of 4.6%, of which 160.81 billion yuan (equivalent to 24.8 billion US dollars) was foreign non-financial direct investment, a year-on-year decrease of 4.9%. The turnover of foreign contracted projects was 195.31 billion yuan (equivalent to 30.12 billion US dollars), basically the same as that of the same period last year; The newly signed contract value was 347.24 billion yuan (US $53.55 billion), a year-on-year decrease of 10.2%. 74000 labor workers of all kinds were sent out for foreign labor cooperation, and 590000 labor workers of all kinds were sent out at the end of March.

The main features are as follows:

First, one belt, one road, along the investment cooperation between countries has been steadily increasing. In the first quarter, China's non-financial direct investment in countries along the belt and road amounted to US $4.42 billion, up 5.2% year on year, accounting for 17.8% of the total amount in the same period, up 0.5 percentage point over the same period last year. The contract value of newly signed projects in countries along the belt and road is US $31.34 billion, and the completed turnover is US $17.75 billion, with a year-on-year growth of 19.4% and 12.4% respectively.

Second, investment in manufacturing, information transmission and other fields grew rapidly. In the first quarter, the investment to manufacturing industry was US $3.84 billion, a year-on-year increase of 17.8%; The flow to information transmission industry was 1.62 billion US dollars, up 20.9% year on year.

Third, the foreign investment of local enterprises has increased. In the first quarter, the foreign non-financial direct investment of local enterprises reached 20.03 billion US dollars, up 9.9% year on year, accounting for 80.8% of the total foreign direct investment in the same period. The year-on-year growth of foreign investment in the eastern, central and western regions reached 7.2%, 45.6% and 6.3% respectively.

Fourth, foreign contracted projects are concentrated in the field of infrastructure. In the first quarter, the newly signed contract value of overseas infrastructure projects contracted by our enterprise was US $41.2 billion, and the completed turnover was US $24.6 billion, accounting for 77% and 81.6% of the total respectively.

Source: China News