China News Service, June 18th, at the Ministry of Commerce’s regular online press conference held on June 18th, the spokesperson Gao Feng introduced the country’s foreign investment absorption, foreign investment cooperation, and service outsourcing industry development from January to May 2020. Happening. Gao Feng said that from January to May 2020, the actual use of foreign capital nationwide was 355.18 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 3.8%.
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Gao Feng introduced that from January to May 2020, the actual use of foreign capital nationwide was 355.18 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 3.8% (equivalent to 51.21 billion US dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 6.2%; excluding banks, securities, and insurance, the same below), compared with the first quarter The decline narrowed by 7 percentage points. In May, the actual foreign capital used in the country was 68.63 billion yuan, an increase of 7.5% year-on-year (equivalent to 9.87 billion US dollars, an increase of 4.2% year-on-year).
From January to May this year, the actual use of foreign capital in my country's high-tech industry increased by 2% year-on-year, of which information services, e-commerce services, R&D and design services increased by 42.3%, 67.9%, and 49.8% respectively. In major economies and regions, the actual foreign investment in countries along the “Belt and Road” increased by 6% year-on-year; the actual foreign investment in ASEAN increased by 10.1% year-on-year.
Gao Feng introduced that from January to May 2020, Chinese domestic investors made non-financial direct investments in 3570 overseas companies in 157 countries and regions, with a total investment of 296.27 billion yuan (US$42.2 billion), a year-on-year decrease 1.6%. The newly signed contract value of foreign contracted projects was 601.88 billion yuan (US$85.73 billion), an increase of 14.4% year-on-year; the completed turnover was 348.43 billion yuan (US$49.63 billion), a year-on-year decrease of 7.1%. Foreign labor service cooperation sent 111,000 laborers of various types, a decrease of 82,000 compared with the same period of the previous year. At the end of May, there were 658,000 laborers of various types abroad.
Gao Feng analysis said that my country's foreign investment cooperation in the first five months of this year mainly has the following characteristics:
One is to maintain growth in investment cooperation with countries along the “Belt and Road”. From January to May this year, my country's non-financial direct investment in countries along the “Belt and Road” route reached US$6.53 billion, an increase of 16% year-on-year, accounting for 15.5% of the total for the same period, an increase of 2.9 percentage points over the previous year. The value of newly signed foreign contracted projects in countries along the “Belt and Road” was US$46.98 billion, an increase of 0.1% year-on-year, accounting for 54.8% of the newly signed contract value of foreign contracted projects in my country during the same period.
The second is that investment in major sectors has risen and fallen. From January to May, my country's foreign direct investment mainly flowed to leasing and business services, wholesale and retail, and manufacturing, accounting for 38.3%, 16.5%, and 15.3%, respectively. Among them, leasing and business services, wholesale and retail increased by 35.6% and 61.5% year-on-year, respectively, and manufacturing decreased by 22.5% year-on-year. Over the same period, investment in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery increased by 54.1%.
The third is the increase in newly signed major projects of foreign contracted projects. From January to May, there were 319 projects with a new contract value of more than US$50 million, an increase of 32 from the same period of the previous year, totaling US$70.57 billion, accounting for 82.3% of the total value of newly signed contracts. Among them, there are 189 projects with hundreds of millions of dollars, an increase of 34 compared with the same period of last year.
Fourth, the turnover of completed foreign contracted projects in the traditional market has declined. From January to May, the turnover of contracted projects in Asia and Africa was US$27.8 billion and US$12.8 billion, down 9.7% and 17.7% year-on-year; Europe was US$4.19 billion, up 33.8% year-on-year; Latin America was US$2.95 billion, A year-on-year decrease of 19.4%; Oceania was US$1.63 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 16%.
Gao Feng introduced that from January to May 2020, my country's enterprises undertook service outsourcing contracts with a value of 466.89 billion yuan (the same currency as below), a year-on-year decrease of 3.1%, and an execution value of 311.12 billion yuan, an increase of 9.2% year-on-year. Among them, the contract value of undertaking offshore service outsourcing was 289.72 billion yuan, down 5.4% year-on-year, and the execution value was 191.03 billion yuan, an increase of 10.6% year-on-year. US$ 100 million, an increase of 7.2% year-on-year, of which the contract value of offshore service outsourcing contracts was US$ 42.03 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 8.4%, and the execution value was US$ 27.86 billion, an increase of 8.6% year-on-year).
In May, Chinese companies undertook service outsourcing contracts with a value of 92.49 billion yuan and an execution value of 63.47 billion yuan, up 10.4% and 4.3% year-on-year respectively, of which 58.75 billion yuan were undertaken for offshore service outsourcing contracts and 41.86 billion yuan were executed, respectively. Increased by 20.5% and 11.5% (in terms of US dollars, the value of undertaking service outsourcing contracts in May was US$13.31 billion, and the execution value was US$9.15 billion, up 6.3% and 0.8% year-on-year respectively, of which the amount of undertaking offshore service outsourcing contracts was US$8.45 billion. (Execution amount is US$ 6.04 billion, up 15.7% and 7.8% year-on-year respectively).
In terms of structure, productive service outsourcing services such as new-generation information technology development services and R&D, testing, and maintenance at both ends of the value chain have maintained rapid growth. From January to May, Chinese companies undertook offshore information technology outsourcing (ITO), business process outsourcing (BPO), and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO). The execution amounts were 84.24 billion yuan, 36.63 billion yuan, and 70.16 billion yuan, an increase of 5.2% year-on-year , 24.7% and 10.9%. Cloud computing services, artificial intelligence services, blockchain technology services and other new-generation information technology development services offshore execution volume increased by 187.6% year-on-year. Knowledge and process outsourcing (KPO) pharmaceutical and biotechnology outsourcing offshore execution value of 15.4 billion yuan, an increase of 38.8% year-on-year, undertaking integrated circuit and electronic circuit testing services offshore execution amount of 10.03 billion yuan, an increase of 13.5% year-on-year, undertaking maintenance The offshore implementation of maintenance services amounted to 9.45 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 39.4%. In May, digital service outsourcing such as e-commerce platform services, big data services, and Internet marketing and promotion services increased by 120.1%, 69%, and 29.8% sequentially.
From the market point of view, undertaking business in Asia has grown rapidly. From January to May, Chinese companies undertook the execution of offshore outsourcing in Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam and Thailand with 35.41 billion yuan, 12.13 billion yuan, 9.73 billion yuan, 2.03 billion yuan and 2 billion yuan, an increase of 11.9% year-on-year. 13.2%, 23.4%, 48% and 119.6%, undertaking the offshore outsourcing of the countries along the “Belt and Road” was 33.99 billion yuan, up 9.7% year-on-year.
From a regional perspective, the development momentum of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region leads the country. From January to May, the Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei regions undertook the implementation of offshore outsourcing of 17.21 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 46.6%, mainly due to the rapid growth of information technology and biomedical R&D outsourcing. The implementation value of offshore service outsourcing in the Yangtze River Delta region was 100.38 billion yuan, an increase of 1.4% year-on-year, accounting for 52.5% of the country. 31 service outsourcing demonstration cities have undertaken offshore outsourcing with an execution value of 166.04 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.3%, accounting for 86.9% of the country. Driven by the construction of a free trade port, service outsourcing companies have accelerated their business expansion in Hainan. From January to May, the amount of Hainan’s offshore service outsourcing business increased by 702% year-on-year.
Gao Feng said that at present, my country's service outsourcing companies have basically achieved full-scale resumption of production, and business development continues to improve. From January to May, my country's service outsourcing industry added 298,000 new employees, of which 188,000 had college education (including college), accounting for 62.9% of the new employees.