Oriental Daily News, Hong Kong’s number one newspaper in circulation since 1976, recently reported that, the actual use of foreign direct investment (FDI) in mainland China in the first four months of this year recorded a significant slowdown in the inflow of foreign capital into the mainland.
China’s Ministry of Commerce announced that foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first four months of the year amounted to RMB 287.69 billion (around US$42.5 billion), a 10.3 percent decrease compared to the same period last year. Also, actual single-month FDI in April alone was RMB 38.09 billion (around US$5.6 billion), a sharp drop of 26.1 percent year-over-year, and a major decrease of 56.7 percent month-over-month.
By industry sector, FDI in the manufacturing sector totaled 78.88 billion yuan (around US$11.7 billion) from January to April, while FDI in the service sector totaled 204.15 billion yuan (around US$30.2 billion). FDI in manufacturing and services declined by 6.2 percent and 11.7 percent year-over-year, respectively.
In the meantime, according to data released by the People’s Bank of China (Central Bank), after 12 consecutive months of reducing its holdings of bonds in China’s interbank market, foreign investors’ total holdings of interbank market bonds amounted to RMB 3.12 trillion yuan (around US$461 billion) as of the end of April, the lowest level since November 2020.
Source: Oriental Daily, May 24, 2026
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