印度财政部长Po奇丹巴拉姆(P. Chidambaram)昨日接受本报专访时表示，印度若想保持9%的经济增速，则必须进一步对外国直接投资敞开大门。

India must open up further to foreign direct investment if it is to maintain a growth rate of 9 per cent, P. Chidambaram, the finance minister, told the FT in an interview yesterday.

他指出，（若要保持经济高速增长，）关键在于保持目前大约34%-35%的投资率。投资率是指投资占GDP的比例。2004-05财政年度，印度的投资率为30.1%。

Sustaining an investment rate of now close to 34-35 per cent of gross domestic product would be the key, he said. In 2004-05, investment was 30.1 per cent of GDP.

他表示："这意味着我们必须保持一个非常激励投资（包括内资和外资）的宏观环境：充足的流动性，良好的信贷流，开放更多当前受到严密监管的行业，开放外国直接投资，鼓励创新型融资--特别是在基础设施领域。"

"This means we must keep the environment very enabling for investment, both domestic and foreign: ample liquidity¹, good flow of credit, opening up more sectors² which are closed or too tightly regulated, opening up to foreign direct investment and looking for innovative³ financing especially in infrastructure," he said.