China 2012 FDI inflows drop 3.45%
China's foreign direct investment inflows fell 3.45 percent in the first 10 months of 2012 from a year ago, extending the longest run of decline in three years as uncertainty about the global economic outlook clouds corporate spending plans.
The Commerce Ministry said on Tuesday that China drew $91.7 billion in foreign direct investment between January and October, with October-only inflows down 0.24 percent on year ago at $8.3 billion.
Despite the slowing rate of inflow, China remains firmly on course to secure more than $100 billion of FDI for the third successive year, according to data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, which collates FDI statistics
globally.
FDI is an important gauge of the health of the external economy, to which China's vast factory sector is oriented, but it is a small contributor to overall capital flows compared with exports, which were worth about $1.9 trillion in 2011.
The FDI figure follows a raft of other economic indicators for October, ranging from exports to factory output and investment, that pointed to a recovery in the world's second-largest economy gaining pace.
Investment from the European Union dropped 5.0 percent year-on-year in the Jan- October period, the data showed, while inflows from the United States rose 5.3 percent during the same period.
Meanwhile, FDI from the top 10 Asian economies, including Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore, fell 4.7 percent to $78.0 billion in the first 10 months.
Services sector inflows in the first 10 months of the year
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