In the face of the complex environment of sluggish global cross-border investment, China has contributed a hard-won foreign investment report card to the world with its high-level opening-up and continuously optimized business environment.
Recently, China’s Ministry of Commerce released a data: from January to October this year, China established 53,782 new foreign-invested enterprises, a year-on-year increase of 14.7%, demonstrating the sustained attractiveness of China’s market.
In terms of industry, the high-tech sector attracted 192.52 billion yuan in foreign investment, emerging as a standout performer in the investment landscape.
Among them, the actual use of foreign capital in e-commerce service industry, medical instrument and equipment manufacturing industry, aerospace and equipment manufacturing industry increased by 173.1%,41.4% and 40.6% respectively, showing a leapfrog growth trend.
These data indicate that foreign capital is accelerating its flow into high-tech sectors representing future development directions, in sync with China’s high-quality economic development.
In terms of origin, actual foreign direct investment (FDI) from the UAE, the UK, and Switzerland into China increased by 48.7%,17.1%, and 13.2% respectively (including data from free ports).
The diversification of foreign capital sources highlights the sustained confidence of investors from different countries in the China market, and also reflects the mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation between China and other countries in the world.
Since the beginning of this year, China has released the “2025 Action Plan for Stabilizing Foreign Investment”, proposing 20 policy measures from four aspects to expand independent opening-up in an orderly manner and improve the level of investment promotion.
The action plan sends a clear signal that China will further open up and step up efforts to attract foreign investment with pragmatic measures.
In terms of expanding market access, China is “subtracting” restrictions on foreign investment, including further expanding pilot programs in telecommunications and healthcare sectors in a timely manner, and studying and formulating implementation plans for orderly expanding self-directed opening in education and culture sectors.
To enhance the business environment, the plan proposes to continuously improve it and ensure that foreign-invested enterprises receive full national treatment.
At the same time, we will study and formulate policies and measures to encourage foreign enterprises to reinvest in China, so that more of their profits in China can be reinvested.
This institutional advantage ensures the stability and predictability of foreign investment policies. Meanwhile, the continuity of the system provides foreign-funded enterprises with long-term and stable investment expectations, demonstrating China’s firm determination to adhere to opening-up and share development opportunities with the international community.
While China is advancing its opening-up policy, the United States has implemented a series of trade protection measures.
As a founding member and long-standing participant in the multilateral trading system, the United States has drawn attention to its recent policy shifts in trade. At the implementation level, U.S. authorities have invoked domestic regulations such as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to enforce a series of trade measures. These measures have been viewed as conflicting with certain commitments under the WTO framework in some cases. Such practices have sparked concerns and discussions among multiple trading partners.
According to preliminary estimates by the World Trade Organization, the tariff measures introduced by the United States since the beginning of this year could lead to a 1% decline in global merchandise trade volume by 2025, nearly 4 percentage points lower than the previously projected growth rate.
As a responsible major country, China has always been a firm defender of the multilateral trading system, promoting the building of an open world economy and adding certainty and stability to global development.
In January this year, American companies cast their vote of confidence in the China market through actual investment decisions—actual investment in China by the UK, South Korea, the Netherlands, and Japan increased by 324.4%,104.3%,76.1%, and 40.7% respectively.
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