According to the statistics of news release of foreign investment, from January to June 2003, foreign-invested enterprises newly approved for establishment reached total number of 18877, a growth 22.30% as compared with that of the same period last year; the contracted foreign investment reached USD50.958b, a growth of 40.25% as compared with that of the same period last year; and the actual use of foreign investment reached USD30.255b, a growth of 34.33% as compared with that of the same period last year. In June, the foreign-invested enterprises newly approved for establishment reached total number of 3702 around the country, a growth 0.79% as compared with that of the same period last year; the contracted foreign investment reached USD12.735b, a growth of 34.67% as compared with that of the same period last year; and the actual use of foreign investment reached USD6.984b, a growth of 2.48% as compared with that of the same period last year. From January to June, from the ten Asian nations/regions (Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea), the number of newly established enterprises in China witnessed a growth of 20.28% as compared with that of the same period last year with contracted foreign investment and actual use of foreign investment increased by 63.62% and 42.33% respectively; From the US, the number of newly established enterprises in China witnessed a growth of 30.71% as compared with that of the same period last year with contracted foreign investment increased by 7.82% and actual use of foreign investment decreased by 3.00% respectively; And from Europe, the number of newly established enterprises in China witnessed a growth of 33.79% as compared with that of the same period last year with contracted foreign investment and actual use of foreign investment increased by 3.25% and 34.29% respectively. From part of the free ports, the number of newly established enterprises in China witnessed a growth of 8.82% as compared with that of the same period last year with contracted foreign investment decreased by 1.88% and actual use of foreign investment increased by 24.69% respectively. From January to June this year, the top ten nations and regions with investment in China (as per the actual input of foreign capital) are as follows: Hong Kong (USD10.483b), Virgin Island (USD3.340b), Japan (USD2.76b), the US (USD2.337b), South Korea (USD2.278b), Taiwan Province (USD2.104b), Singapore (USD1.255b), West Samoa (USD592m), Germany (USD523m) and Cayman Islands (USD516m), total of which accounted for 86.56% of total actual use of foreign investment in the country. By the end of June 2003, the accumulation of the established foreign-invested enterprises of the country reached the number of 443073 with contracted foreign investment of USD879.017b and actual use of foreign investment of USD478.221b.