Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, November 12, 2003
US$43.56b overseas investment used in first 10 months
China has used 43.56 billion US dollars of overseas investment in the first 10 months of 2003, up 5.81 percent year-on-year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce.
China has used 43.56 billion US dollars of overseas investment in the first 10 months of 2003, up 5.81 percent year-on-year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce.
In the first 10 months, newly approved companies with overseas investment reached 32,696, up 17.99 percent compared with that of the same term of last year.
Contracted overseas investment was 88.68 billion dollars, up 33.75 percent.
By the end of October 2003, the total number of companies with overseas investment was 456,892. Contractual overseas investment totaled 916.7 billion dollars and actually used investment was 491.5 billion dollars.