Statistics show that China's import and export totaled US$330.532 billion in January through August 2001, the export volume reached US$170.994 billion and the import was US$159.539 billion, up by 9.6%, 7.3% and 12.0% respectively over the same period in 2000. The import & export of FIEs totaled US$166.584 billion, up by 11.77%; the export volume of FIEs reached US$84.658 billion, up by 13.43%, while the import reached US$81.926 billion, up by 10.11%. Of the investment made by FIEs, US$9.743 billion went to the import of equipment for their own use, up by 18.44% and accounting for 11.89% of their total import volume.