China News Service, Beijing, January 20 (Reporter Liu Liang) China's Ministry of Commerce spokesperson Shu Jueting introduced at a press conference on the 20th that in 2021, China's foreign investment and cooperation will develop steadily.
The foreign direct investment of the whole industry was 936.69 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.2%.
According to reports, in 2021, the turnover of China's foreign contracted projects will be 999.62 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 7.1%; the newly signed contract value will be 1,667.68 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 5.4%.
The annual foreign investment and cooperation showed the following characteristics:
First, investment in countries along the “Belt and Road” has grown rapidly.
The non-financial direct investment in countries along the “Belt and Road” was 20.3 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 14.1%.
Second, the number of large-scale foreign contracted projects increased.
There were 560 newly signed projects with a contract value of over US$100 million, an increase of 46 over the previous year, mainly in the fields of infrastructure such as transportation.
Third, the construction of overseas economic and trade cooperation zones has achieved remarkable results.
As of the end of 2021, the overseas economic and trade cooperation zones included in the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce are distributed in 46 countries, with a cumulative investment of US$50.7 billion, paying US$6.6 billion in taxes and fees to the host countries, and creating 392,000 local jobs.
On the same day, Shu Jueting also introduced the progress of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
The RCEP will take effect for South Korea on February 1, she said.
China and South Korea have close trade and investment exchanges, and the two sides have extensive cooperation in the fields of electronics, machinery, automobiles, and textiles.
In RCEP, both China and South Korea have made high-level commitments to openness, which has created better conditions for the liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment between the two countries, and is conducive to promoting high-quality development of bilateral trade and investment.
At the same time, RCEP has formed a unified market and further deepened the relationship between the Asia-Pacific industrial chain and supply chain including China, Japan and South Korea. level of trade and investment cooperation.
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