According to the 2018 World Investment Report released by UNCTAD in June, global foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2017 was US $1.43 trillion, down 23% year on year. This is not only a rare two-year consecutive decline in the data history, but also a sharp contrast with the accelerated growth of global GDP and trade, which is somewhat unexpected. Despite the global downturn in foreign direct investment, China's use of foreign investment has continued to show good results: in 2017, China attracted $136 billion in foreign direct investment, a record high. In the first half of this year, the actual utilization of foreign investment reached 446.29 billion yuan, which continued to grow.
In an interview, Professor Sang Baichuan, Dean of our institute, said that China's attraction to foreign investment is not diminished, and an important factor is the expanding market opportunities. For a long time to come, China is still in the rising stage of development, which contains huge domestic demand. China's market is not only expanding in scale, but also rapidly upgrading in structure. The improvement of per capita income and the upgrading of consumption structure will bring a lot of new demands. Residents need more high-quality information, medical, health, financial, cultural and other service products. Multinational companies have certain advantages in these areas.
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