F REIGN TRADE - 中国国际贸易促进委员会

fields, a decline of 10.1% on the previous
year. China utilized $111.72 billion
worth of foreign capital, a decline of
3.7% from 2011. In December alone,
the number of newly-set-up foreigninvested
enterprises was 2,422, down
by 7.8%, and the sum of foreign capital
utilization was $11.70 billion, down by
4.5% (excluding the data of banks, securities
and the insurance industry). The
features are as follows:
Continuing faster increase of
foreign capital utilization in service
industries than in the manufacturing
industries due to the industrial structure
optimization.
In 2012, the service industry made
an actual use of $53.84 billion in foreign
investment, a decline of 2.6% over 2011,
and accounted for 48.2% of the national
total. It was 4.5 percentage points higher
than the manufacturing industry. The
service industries witnessed a continuous
optimization of related fields. The
utilization of foreign investment in real
estate was down by 10.3%, while the
rest of service industries saw an increase
of 4.8%. The following industries witnessed
relatively faster increase rates in
the utilization of foreign investment,
that is, distribution (10.9%), computer
applications (12.3%), and financial services
(11.0%). The sectors of agriculture,
forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries
made an actual use of $2.06 billion in
foreign investment, an increase of 2.7%
year on year, accounting for 1.9% of the
country’s total utilization of foreign capital.
The manufacturing industry made
an actual use of $48.87 billion in foreign
investment, a decrease of 6.2% year on
year, accounting for 43.7% of the country’s
total utilization of foreign capital,
which was 1.2 percentage points lower
over 2011. In specific, several high-end
manufacturing industries saw relatively
faster growth rates, and those of general
equipment manufacturing industry and
transport equipment manufacturing
industry were 31.8% and 17.2% respectively.
Steady increase in the foreign
investment from several developed
countries like the US and Japan.
During the year of 2012, the
investment from the US was $3.13
billion, 4.5% up year on year, and that from Japan increased by
16.3% to $7.38 billion. The paid-in capital from 27 countries in
EU was $6.11 billion, dropped by 3.8%, in which that of German
rose by 29.5% to $1.47 billion, and that of Holland and Switzerland
increased by 49.1% and 58.1% respectively, with relatively
faster speeds. The amount of paid-in capital in China from ten
Asia nations and regions (Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan,
the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and
South Korea) reached $95.74 billion, down by 4.8%.
Continuing significant increase in paid-in foreign capital to
Central China.
From January to December in 2012, the central regions made
an actual use of $9.29 billion, an increase of 18.5%, and accounted for
8.3% of the national total. The eastern regions made an actual use of
$92.51 billion in foreign investment, an increase of 4.2% year on year
and accounted for 82.8% of the national total. The western regions
made an actual use of $9.92 billion in foreign investment, a decline of
14.3% year on year and accounted for 8.9% of the national total.
Overseas investment and economic cooperation
China’s outbound FDI.
In the whole year of 2012, China’s domestic investors invested
directly in 4,425 overseas corporations in 141 nations and regions,
with a total of non-financial outbound FDI of $77.22 billion, an increase
of 28.6% year on year.
The investment in Russia realized a high growth rate of 117.8%.
The investment in the US, Japan, ASEAN and Hong Kong SAR
reached a double-digit growth rate, which were 66.4%, 47.8%, 52%
and 32.9% respectively.
With regard to the investors, the local FDI increased 38.9%
to $28.19 billion, accounting for 36.5% of the total amount over the
same period. Investments from Guangdong, Shandong, Jiangsu,
Liaoning and Zhejiang Provinces were much higher than those from
other provinces.
Overseas-contracted projects.
In the year of 2012, China’s overseas-contracted projects reported
a turnover of $116.6 billion, an increase of 12.7% year on
year. $156.53 billion worth of new contracts was signed in 2012, up
by 10% year on year. There were 586 projects with a newly-signed
contract amount over $50 million, the total amount of which reached
$125.21 billion, 11.4% increase year on year.
By the end of December in 2012, China had signed a total of
$998.1 billion worth of agreements on contracting overseas projects,
and realized $655.6 billion in turnover.
Foreign labor service cooperation.
In the entire year of 2012, the number of all kinds of labor
sent abroad was 512,000, an increase of 60,000 from the
same period of last year. 233,000 of them were working on
overseas contracted projects, and 279,000 of them were for labor
cooperation. At the end of December in 2012, there were
a total of 850,000 Chinese working abroad, 38,000 more than
the same period of 2011. By the end of 2012, the total number
of all kinds of labor sent abroad was 6.39 million.
(Source: Press conference of the Ministry of Commerce of
China on January 16, 2013)
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