China says Jan-Feb FDI up 2.7% year on year

[BEIJING] China's non-financial foreign direct investment (FDI) rose 2.7 per cent year-on-year in the January-February period to 141.88 billion yuan, or US$22.52 billion, the Commerce Ministry said on Friday.

That compared with 17 per cent growth in the same period last year.

The ministry didn't give a breakdown for FDI in February alone. But overall FDI fell 1.3 per cent to US$8.45 billion in February from a year earlier, according to Reuters calculations.

REUTERS