In the first quarter, the mainland absorbed 301.67 billion yuan of foreign investment
In the first quarter of this year, 12,000 foreign-invested enterprises were newly established across the country, up 20.7 percent year-on-year, and the actual amount of foreign capital used was 301.67 billion yuan, still at a historically high level.
This reporter learned this from a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on the 19th. Guo Tingting, vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce, introduced at the press conference that from the perspective of investment structure, the proportion of high-tech manufacturing investment in the first quarter reached 12.5%, an increase of 2.2 percentage points over the same period last year. Investment in the service industry, which is closely related to residents' lives, has also achieved rapid growth.
In view of the fluctuations in the mainland's foreign investment attraction data since last year, Ji Xiaofeng, head of the Foreign Investment Management Department of the Ministry of Commerce, said that it is necessary to make a comprehensive analysis of the situation of the mainland's foreign investment, not only to see the changes in the scale of foreign investment, but also to see the optimization of the investment structure and future development prospects. In the same period last year, the scale of investment in mainland China reached the highest level in the history of quarterly investment, and in the first quarter of this year, it decreased year-on-year. Foreign investment usually has a process from project signing, company registration to completion and production, and in this process, foreign investment will continue to receive capital with the progress of project construction. The growth of the number of newly established enterprises has a certain role as a weather vane, which will form a certain support for future capital arrivals.
Recently, A.T. A.T. A.T. A.T. Kearney released the 2024 Global FDI Confidence Index, and China's ranking jumped from 7th last year to 3rd. Ji Xiaofeng said that this reflects the willingness of multinational companies to continue to expand investment in China. In the next step, the Ministry of Commerce will continue to promote five aspects:
The first is to relax the access of foreign investment. The negative list for foreign investment access will be reasonably reduced, the restrictions on access to the manufacturing sector will be completely lifted, and the market access for the medical, telecommunications and other service industries will be relaxed.
The second is to strengthen investment promotion. We will do a good job in the key activities of "Invest in China", increase the efforts to attract investment in "going out", focus on advanced manufacturing, strategic emerging industries, digital and intelligent technology, green technology and other fields to carry out targeted investment, and continue to optimize the industrial structure of investment. Strengthen the role of the national economic development zone as a platform for attracting investment.
The third is to strengthen service guarantees. Give full play to the role of the special team for the work of key foreign-funded projects, make good use of the roundtable meeting of foreign-funded enterprises and the system of "collection and handling of problems and demands of foreign-funded enterprises", communicate frankly and pragmatically with foreign-funded enterprises, and solve the difficult problems reported by enterprises in a timely manner.
Fourth, build an open platform. In line with international high-standard economic and trade rules, we will implement the plan for deepening the construction of a comprehensive demonstration zone for the expansion and opening up of Beijing's service industry, and launch a new round of open innovation policy measures in other pilot provinces and cities in a timely manner.
Fifth, optimize the investment environment. We will continue to promote the implementation of the "24 Articles on Foreign Investment" and evaluate the implementation of the policy in a timely manner.
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