According to the statistics of news release of foreign investment, from January to June 2004, foreign-invested enterprises newly approved for establishment reached total number of 21688, a growth of 14.89% as compared with that of the dame period last year: the contracted foreign investment reached USD72.697b, a growth of 42.66% as compared with that of the same period last year; and the actual use of foreign investment reached USD33.883b, a growth of 11.99% as compared with that of the same period last year.

In June, the foreign-invested enterprises newly approved for establishment reached total number of 4329 around the country, a growth 16.94% as compared with that of the same period last year; the contracted foreign investment reached USD15.456b, a growth of 21.37% as compared with that of the same period last year; and the actual use of foreign investment reached USD7.973b, an increase of 14.16% 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 12.73% as compared with that of the same period last year with contracted foreign investment and actual use of foreign investment increased by 29.54% and 7.34% respectively; From the US, the number of newly established enterprises in China witnessed a growth of 3.36% as compared with that of the same period last year with contracted foreign investment increased by 27.37% and actual use of foreign investment increased by 4.04% respectively: And from Europe, the number of newly established enterprises in China witnessed a growth of 27.65% as compared with that of the same period last year with contracted foreign investment increased by 32.35% and the actual use of foreign investment increased by 0.51%. From part of free ports, the number of newly established enterprises in China witnessed a growth of 36.15% as compared with that of the same period last year with contracted foreign investment increased by 93.66% and actual use of foreign investment increased by 33.9% 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 (USD10.838b), Virgin Island (USD3.787b), South Korea (USD3.515b), Japan (USD2.947b), the US (USD2.431b), Taiwan Province (USD1.894b), Cayman Islands (USD1.541b), Singapore (USD1.092b), West Samoa (USD591m) and Netherlands (USD555b), total of which accounted for 86% of total actual use of foreign investment in the country.

By the end of June 2004 this year, the accumulation of the established foreign-invested enterprises of the country reached the number of 486965 with contracted foreign investment of USD1015.827b and actual use of foreign investment of USD535.354b.