China's foreign direct investment in 2019 was US $136.91 billion, down 4.3% year-on-year, ranking second only to Japan in terms of flow volume, according to official statistics released on the 16th.
According to the "statistical bulletin of China's foreign direct investment in 2019" released by the Ministry of Commerce, the National Bureau of statistics and the State Administration of foreign exchange on the same day, China's foreign direct investment stock reached US $2.2 trillion by the end of 2019, ranking third in the world, second to the United States (US $7.7 trillion) and the Netherlands (US $2.6 trillion).
In 2019, China's foreign investment flow accounted for 10.4% of the world's total, more than 10% for four consecutive years, and the stock accounted for 6.4%, the same as that of the previous year. From the perspective of two-way investment, the scale of China's foreign direct investment in 2019 is 3.1% lower than that of attracting foreign investment.
By the end of 2019, China's OFDI enterprises have reached 44000, covering 188 countries and regions, and more than 80% of the countries (regions) in the world have Chinese investment. At the end of that year, the total assets of Chinese overseas enterprises reached 7.2 trillion US dollars. The "one belt, one road" countries account for 13.7% of China's foreign investment in that year.
China's foreign investment is mainly concentrated in the service industry. According to the communique, 80% of China's foreign direct investment stock at the end of 2019 is concentrated in the service industry, mainly in leasing and business services, wholesale and retail, finance, information transmission / software and information technology services, real estate, transportation / warehousing and other fields.
According to the communique, in 2019, overseas enterprises in China are in good condition, with more than 70% of them making profits or being flat. Foreign investment led to export of 116.7 billion US dollars, accounting for 4.7% of China's total export value of goods.