The Ministry of Commerce announced that between January and March this year, 9297 new foreign-invested enterprises were established, up 4.36 percent from last year. US$15.893 billion of foreign capital was actually used, up 11.56 percent.

The top 10 investing countries and regions were China's Hong Kong, British Virgin Islands, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Cayman Islands, Samoa, China's Taiwan, and Mauritius. The foreign capital invested by these ten countries and regions made up 86.02 percent of actually used foreign capital in China.