According to the statistics of news release of foreign investment, from January to February 2005, foreign-invested enterprises newly approved for establishment reached total number of 5444, a decrease of 9.02% as compared with that of the same period last year; the contracted foreign investment reached USD20.052b, a growth of 6.15% as compared with that of the same period last year; and the actual use of foreign investment reached USD7.969b, a growth of 8.21%as compared with that of the same period last year.

In February, the foreign-invested enterprises newly approved for establishment reached total number of 1881 around the country, a decrease of 38.73% year on year; the contracted foreign investment reached USD7.215 billion, a decrease of 18.36% as compared with that of the same period last year; and the actual use of foreign investment reached USD 3.873 billion, an increase of 1.98% as compared with that of the same period last year.

From January to February, 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 decrease of 6.85% as compared with that of the same period last year with contracted foreign investment and actual use of foreign investment reduced by 0.96% and 7.86% respectively; From the US, the number of newly established enterprises in China witnessed a decrease of 22.60% as compared with that of the same period last year with the contracted foreign investment reduced by 0.97% and actual use of foreign investment reduced 18.94% respectively; And from Europe ,the number of newly established enterprises in China witnessed a growth of 12.18% year on year with contracted foreign investment increased by 35.12% and actual use of foreign investment increased by 43.07%. From part of the free ports, the number of newly established enterprises in China witnessed a decrease of 13.94% as compared with that of the same period last year with contracted foreign investment and actual use of foreign investment increased by 20.19% and 11.51% respectively.

From January to February this year, the top ten nations and regions with investment in China (as per actual input of foreign capital) are as follows: Hong Kong (USD2.143b), Virgin Island (USD1.143b), Japan(USD1.014b), South Korea  (USD7370m), Cayman(USD5060m), the US (USD4290m),  Taiwan Province(USD2960m), Singapore (USD2380mb), West Samoa(USD2210m) and England (USD1940m), total of which accounted for 86.896% of total actual use of foreign investment in the country.

By the end of February 2005, the accumulation of the established foreign-invested enterprises of the country reached the number of 280000 with contracted foreign investment of USD 2.0052billion and actual use of foreign investment of USD 7.969billion.