Chinanews.com, May 27. At a press conference held by the Ministry of Commerce on the 27th, Gao Feng, spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce, introduced that from January to April 2021, my country’s foreign direct investment in the whole industry was 285.09 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.3%. (Equivalent to 43.9 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 11.4% year-on-year).

Among them, foreign non-financial direct investment was 222.87 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 5.2% (equivalent to US$34.32 billion, a year-on-year increase of 2.2%).

The turnover of foreign contracted projects was 263.07 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3% (equivalent to US$40.51 billion, a year-on-year increase of 11%); the value of newly signed contracts was 463.93 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.2% (equivalent to US$71.44 billion, a year-on-year increase of 9.1%) ).

104,000 laborers of various types were dispatched for foreign labor service cooperation, and 594,000 laborers of various types were dispatched abroad at the end of April.

　　Gao Feng said that in the first four months of this year, my country's foreign investment cooperation mainly showed the following characteristics:

　　First, positive progress has been made in investment cooperation with countries along the “Belt and Road”.

In the first four months of this year, my country’s non-financial direct investment in countries along the “Belt and Road” was US$5.96 billion, a year-on-year increase of 14%, accounting for 17.4% of the total in the same period, an increase of 1.8 percentage points from the previous year.

The value of newly signed contracted projects in countries along the route was US$41.56 billion, and the completed turnover was US$23.46 billion, an increase of 25.2% and 12.9% respectively year-on-year.

　　The second is the continuous growth of foreign investment in many fields.

From January to April, the investment to the manufacturing industry was US$5.72 billion, a year-on-year increase of 23.5%; the investment to the information transmission industry was US$2.44 billion, a year-on-year increase of 23.2%.

Investment in the fields of scientific research and technical services, transportation, resident services, and health is also on the rise.

　　Third, local foreign investment accounted for nearly 80%.

From January to April, foreign non-financial direct investment by local enterprises was US$27.39 billion, a year-on-year increase of 7.5%, accounting for 79.8% of the total foreign investment in the same period.

Among them, the foreign investment of enterprises in the Yangtze River Economic Belt region was US$13.57 billion, a year-on-year increase of 20.9%, accounting for 39.5% of the country's foreign investment.

　　Fourth, there are many new major projects signed for foreign contracted projects.

From January to April, there were 242 projects with a contract value of more than 50 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 12 over the same period of the previous year, with a total of 61.04 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 85.4% of the total newly signed contracts, mainly in transportation, power engineering, etc. field.