The latest data published by the Ministry of Commerce of China shows that, from January to May of this year, there were 15,072 newly established foreign investment enterprises, falling by 3.75 percent from the same period last year; US$25.258 billion of foreign capital was actually used, up by 9.87 percent more than in the same period last year.

Accounting for the amount of actual foreign capital invested in the first five months, the top ten countries/ regions were: Hong Kong, British Virgin Islands, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, the United States, the Cayman Islands, Samoa, Chinese Taiwan and Mauritius. The value of the foreign capital that actually invested from these top ten countries/ regions made up 86.16 percent of China's total actually used foreign capital.

By People's Daily Online