China News Agency, Beijing, March 26 (Reporter Li Xiaoyu) The latest data released by the Ministry of Commerce on the 26th showed that China ’s non-financial foreign direct investment in the first two months of this year was 107.86 billion yuan, an increase of 1.8% year-on-year. In terms of US dollars, foreign direct investment amounted to US $ 15.5 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 1%.
By region, from January to February, Chinese enterprises' investment in the countries along the “Belt and Road” surged, totaling US $ 2.72 billion, an increase of 18.3% year-on-year. Chinese enterprises newly signed foreign contracted projects in 59 countries along the “Belt and Road”, with a contract value of US $ 15.36 billion, an increase of 25.6% year-on-year, and a turnover of US $ 9.14 billion.
In terms of different industries, China's foreign investment in the first two months mainly went to traditional investment fields such as leasing and business services, wholesale and retail, manufacturing and mining. Among them, the investment in the leasing and business services industry reached 6.33 billion US dollars, an increase of 43.2% year-on-year, the highest growth rate.
New large-scale projects signed for foreign contracted projects increased. In January-February, 115 projects with a contract value of over 50 million U.S. dollars for China's foreign contracted projects, an increase of 29 from the same period last year, accounted for 83.9% of the total number of newly signed contracts, mainly concentrated in transportation construction, power engineering construction, General construction projects, communication engineering construction and petrochemical projects.
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