In the first half of the year, the actual use of foreign investment in the country increased by 17.4% year -on -year in the free trade pilot zone.

Reporter Liu Meng

On July 29, the Ministry of Commerce released data showing that from January to June 2022, the actual amount of foreign capital used in the country was 723.31 billion yuan, an increase of 17.4%year -on -year (the same), equivalent to $ 112.35 billion, an increase of 21.8%.

"It should be noted that since May of this year, we have implemented the newly revised" Foreign Investment Statistics Survey System ". In the first half of the year, the actual amount of foreign capital was used in the full -caliber data including banks, securities, and insurance. Compared with the caliber. "Chen Chunjiang, director of the Ministry of Commerce, said at the special press conference of" Business Work and Operations in the First Half of 2022 "held by the Ministry of Commerce.

The chief economist of CITIC Securities clearly said in an interview with the Securities Daily that the actual use of foreign capital in the first half of the year has achieved high growth year -on -year, which means that overseas medium and long -term funds are full of confidence in China's economic development, reflecting the Chinese market's own having a possession of the Chinese market. Extremely attractive.

Data show that from the perspective of the industry, the actual amount of foreign investment in the service industry was 537.13 billion yuan, an increase of 9.2%. The actual use of foreign investment in high -tech industries has increased by 33.6%, of which high -tech manufacturing has increased by 31.1%, and the high -tech service industry increases by 34.4%. From the source, South Korea, the United States, and Germany's actual investment in China increased by 37.2%, 26.1%, and 13.9%respectively (including investment data through free ports). From the perspective of regional distribution, the actual use of foreign investment in eastern, central, and western regions of my country increased by 15.6%, 25%, and 43.9%, respectively.

"The high -level open platform has a significant role. In the first half of the year, the 219.85 billion yuan of foreign capital in the 21 free trade pilot zone increased by 16.8%, which attracted nearly 16.6%of the area of ​​less than 4th." Yang Tao, deputy director of the company, said at a special press conference.

Obviously, since this year, China's use of foreign investment has grown steadily, mainly with two main reasons: First, my country's degree of openness to the outside world has continued to increase, such as the implementation of the new version of the national and free trade pilot zone foreign investment access to the country It is to increase support for stabilizing the relevant policies of foreign investment.

How to provide more convenience for foreign companies to invest and operate in China? Obviously, at the local level, we can strengthen communication with foreign -funded enterprises by formulating measures to facilitate the exchanges, exhibitions and symposiums in facilitation of foreign companies; at the national level, it can be continued work hard.

Fu Yifu, a senior researcher at the Star Financial Research Institute, said that he should continue to build a business environment with equal rights, equality of rules, and equal opportunities. By ensuring fair competition and improving intellectual property protection, foreign investment can rest assured investment, expand investment, long -term long -term invest.

Chen Chunjiang said that the Ministry of Commerce will insist on promoting the increase and stabilization of the amount, and do a good job of attracting investment, security, and stable business. In the second half of the year, five aspects focus on the development of five aspects: one is to quickly launch new policies and measures for stable foreign investment; second, increase investment promotion; third, to improve the level of foreign -funded services; fourth, to promote the addition of the service industry to expand the comprehensive pilot area of ​​open open opening; Optimize the business environment.

Looking at the third quarter, it is clearly believed that the current economic operation of my country has continued to rise and rebounded. The meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China recently held clearly "do a good job of technology and foreign investment." It is foreseeable that in the third quarter, my country will attract more multinational companies to invest in China, and the actual use of foreign investment is expected to continue to maintain a high growth trend.

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