CCTV News: On the afternoon of March 20, the Ministry of Commerce held a press conference, and the spokesperson introduced the situation of my country's foreign investment cooperation from January to February this year. From January to February, my country's non-financial direct investment in foreign countries was US$22.97 billion, an increase of 9.1% year-on-year.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce introduced that Chinese enterprises invested 5.52 billion US dollars in non-financial direct investment in jointly building the "Belt and Road" countries, an increase of 17.6% year-on-year. From January to February, my country's foreign contracting projects completed a turnover of US$18.34 billion and the newly signed contract amount was US$35.34 billion, an increase of 28.7% year-on-year.
In addition, the Ministry of Commerce introduced that in terms of stabilizing foreign investment this year, in addition to implementing the "2025 Action Plan for stabilizing foreign investment", it will further expand the scope of opening up. At present, many foreign-funded enterprises have been approved or implemented in value-added telecommunications services, biotechnology projects, etc. This year, we will continue to promote the accelerated implementation of pilot projects in related fields and continue to build the "Invest in China" brand.
Spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce He Yongqian: We will continue to support domestic and foreign-funded enterprises in large-scale equipment renewal, consumer goods trade-in, government procurement, bidding and other activities to provide a fair competitive environment for foreign-funded enterprises.
