May 18, the Ministry of Commerce published data show that in April this year, China's actual use of foreign investment (FDI) fell 4.3% year-on-year. It is analyzed that the above situation, it may be related to the global economic downturn and the continued optimization of China's attraction of foreign capital structure, but Jianping, director of the Regional Economic Cooperation Research Center of the Ministry of Commerce, believes that in April, the negative growth of FDI in China is normal fluctuation, not enough to reflect the overall situation, and due to the large base,
Data show that the actual use of foreign capital in April amounted to 59.91 billion yuan, down 4.3%, compared with March 6.7% year-on-year increase, a sharp decline. In addition, since this year, China's single month FDI presents a clear fluctuation state, January year-on-year decline of 9.2%, February year-on-year growth of 9.2%, March year-on-year growth of 6.7%, April year-on-year decline of 4.3%. Some analysts believe that the above-mentioned situation may be related to weak global economic growth and weak world trade growth, and China's use of foreign capital structure is being optimized, or to attract foreign investment have a certain impact.
However, in Jianping's view, foreign investment in China needs a certain period of time, one-month FDI is affected more by accidental factors, the decline of FDI in April is not enough to reflect the overall situation of China's use of foreign investment, "at present, China has maintained a clear advantage in attracting foreign investment." China's large market size, the attractiveness of foreign investment, China is continuing to expand the open all-round, taking the financial sector as an example, the past restrictions on foreign capital, now China's bond market has opened to the outside world, allowing foreign financial institutions to issue bonds in China.
In fact, in order to promote the opening-up, create a fair competition environment and further attract foreign capital, the State Council issued a notice on the measures to expand the opening-up and active use of foreign capital at the beginning of this year, and to deploy the work of utilizing foreign capital, a number of relevant provisions for foreign investment in China to create a These include a significant easing of foreign entry restrictions in the service, manufacturing and mining sectors, allowing foreign investment to participate in government procurement and tendering, and equal access to products produced by foreign-invested enterprises in China.
"This year, China's use of foreign capital is relatively stable, the Chinese economic structure is undergoing transformation and upgrading, in line with China's development needs and development direction of industry, absorbing foreign investment is more optimistic." Generally speaking, the service industry and the high value-added manufacturing industry are the most attractive sectors in China, and the recent growth of FDI in some High-tech service industries indicates that this kind of foreign capital is needed in China at this stage. "For future forecast, Jianping further pointed out that China's absorption of foreign investment level has reached a certain altitude, the annual absorption of foreign capital maintained at more than US $100 billion, to maintain the existing level or a slight increase in the normal situation," according to the current trend of this year, China's FDI or will maintain single-digit growth, if the policy of the FTA Pilot zone, the use of foreign investment will make better progress this year. " However, Jianping also said that the current absorption of foreign investment in China has a short plate, that is, the market access to foreign capital to be expanded, although China's foreign investment has been implemented a negative list of management mode, but the negative list is longer, more restrictions, some areas need to be further open.