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FDI in China



FDI in China (Total and US) 1998-2007
Source: Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM)
* MOFCOM stopped reporting contracted foreign investment figures by country in December 2005. Beginning in 2005, the number of contracts refers to the number of projects and the contracted value refers to actual investment levels.
**Beginning in 2006, FDI statistics explicitly include financial and non-financial FDI; the cited figure incorporates both categories.
  1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Total Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
No. of Contracts* 19,799 16,918 22,347 26,139 34,171 41,081 43,664 44,019 41,485 37,888
Amt. Contracted ($ billion) 52.10 41.22 62.38 69.20 82.77 115.07 153.48 189.07 200.17 NA
Amt. Utilized ($ billion) 45.46 40.32 40.72 46.88 52.74 53.51 60.63 60.33 69.47** 82.66**
US Direct Investment
No. of Contracts 2,238 2,028 2,609 2,594 3,363 4,060 3,925 3,741 3,205 2,627
Amt. Contracted ($ billion) 6.48 6.02 8.00 7.51 8.20 10.16 12.17 NA* NA* NA*
Amt. Utilized ($ billion) 3.90 4.22 4.38 4.86 5.40 4.20 3.94 3.06 3.00 2.62
 
US Share of Utilized Investment 8.50% 10.47% 10.76% 10.37% 10.24% 7.85% 6.50% 5.07% 4.12% 3.50%



Foreign Direct Investment by Vehicle Type, 2006 and 2007
Note: FDI=foreign direct investment; EJVs=equity joint ventures; CJVs=cooperative joint ventures; WFOEs=wholly foreign-owned enterprises
  Number of Projects Utilized FDI Value ($ billion)
2006 2007 % Change 2006 2007 % Change
Total FDI 41,473 37,871 -8.69 65.82 74.77 13.59
EJVs 10,223 7,649 -25.18 14.83 15.60 5.13
CJVs 1,036 641 -38.13 1.99 1.42 -28.77
WFOEs 30,164 29,543 -2.06 48.56 57.26 17.92
Foreign-invested shareholding ventures 50 38 -24.00 0.44 0.49 12.95