New foreign-invested firms up 5.3 pct in China in first five months

BEIJING, June 22 (Xinhua) -- China saw 25,297 newly established foreign-invested firms in the first five months of 2026, a year-on-year increase of 5.3 percent, according to data released on Monday by the Ministry of Commerce.

During this period, actual foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow totaled 327.29 billion yuan (about 48.03 billion U.S. dollars), down 8.6 percent year on year. However, FDI in May alone rose 5.9 percent year on year, the data showed.

By sector, manufacturing attracted 86.97 billion yuan in actual FDI during the five-month period, while the services sector drew 234.15 billion yuan. Actual FDI in high-tech industries expanded 19.4 percent year on year to 130.14 billion yuan in this period.

Notably, investment from the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Switzerland and the United States surged by 285.5 percent, 108.6 percent, 49.4 percent and 17.3 percent year on year, respectively, during this same period, the data revealed.