10,101 new foreign companies pledged to invest US$241.7 billion worth of contracted investments, up 25.5% and 24.6% respectively. However, actual investment into China was US$171.67 billion for the first half of this year, a 7.5% decrease from 1999.
Up to the end of June, there were a total of more than 3.5 million companies from 180-plus countries and regions in China promising US$638.2 billion in contracted investments. Actual investment was more than US$325 billion.
Currently, almost 400 of the world's 500 largest multinational companies have set up offices in China.