According to the statistics of news release of foreign investment, from January to September 2004, foreign-invested enterprises newly approved for establishment reached total number of 32279, a growth of 9.28% as compared with that of the same period last year; the contracted foreign investment reached USD107.421b, a growth of 35.62% as compared with that of the same period last year; and the actual use of foreign investment reached USD48.692b, a growth of 21.01% as compared with that of the same period last year.

In September, the foreign-invested enterprises newly approved for establishment reached total number of 3531 around the country, a decrease of 7.30% year on year; the contracted foreign investment reached USD 13.629 billion, a growth of 16.74% as compared with that of the same period last year; and the actual use of foreign investment reached USD 5.134 billion, an increase of 44.04% as compared with that of the same period last year.

From January to September, from the ten Asian nations/regions(Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Japan, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea), the number of newly established enterprises in China witnessed a growth of 8% as compared with that of the same period last year with contracted foreign investment and actual use of foreign investment increased by 25.35% and 18.51% respectively; From the US, the number of newly established enterprises in China witnessed a decrease of 2.72% as compared with that of the same period last year with the contracted foreign investment and actual use of foreign investment increased by 19.64% and 9.69% respectively; And from Europe ,the number of newly established enterprises in China witnessed a growth of 20.96% year on year with contracted foreign investment increased by 41.58% and actual use of foreign investment decreased by 3.11%. From part of the free ports, the number of newly established enterprises in China witnessed a growth of 25.36% as compared with that of the same period last year with contracted foreign investment and actual use of foreign investment increased by 60.68% and 36.48% respectively.

From January to September this year, the top ten nations and regions with investment in China (as per actual input of foreign capital) are as follows: Hong Kong (USD15.456 b), Virgin Island (USD 5.621b), South Korea (USD5.231b), Japan (USD4.212b), the US (USD3.384b), Taiwan Province (USD2.621b), Cayman (USD1.821b), Singapore (USD1.699b), West Samoa(USD974m) and Germany (USD765m), total of which accounted for 86.68% of total actual use of foreign investment in the country.

By the end of September 2004, the accumulation of the established foreign-invested enterprises of the country reached the number of 497556 with contracted foreign investment of USD 1050.550billion and actual use of foreign investment of USD 550.163 billion.