Latest official data shows foreign direct investment in the Chinese mainland continued to rise in the first four months of the year.

 

最新的官方数据显示，2016年前四个月中国大陆的外商直接投资持续增长。

 

FDI, which excludes investment in the financial sector¹, rose 4.8 percent year on year to around 286 billion yuan or 45.3 billion U.S. dollars in the Jan.-April period.

 

Investment in the service sector accounted for about 70 percent of the total inflow during the period, reaching 201.4 billion yuan.

 

FDI in the high-tech² service industry soared nearly 109 percent year on year to about 32.5 billion yuan in the four months.

 

Investment from countries relating to the Belt and Road Initiative remained robust³, up by nearly 20 percent to some 2.5 billion U.S. dollars.

 

Meanwhile, FDI for April grew 6 percent year on year to some 62.5 billion yuan.

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