Foreign investment in high-tech industries in China continues to grow: the actual use of foreign investment in e-commerce services increased by 146% year-on-year in January-May – Passionategeekz

Passionategeekz According to June 21, since the beginning of this year, foreign-funded enterprises have focused on modern service industries and advanced manufacturing industries, and have continuously expanded and deepened investment in China. The large market with great potential in China has also opened up new space for foreign investment.

CCTV today quoted the latest data from the Ministry of Commerce, saying that in the first five months of this year, my country’s high-tech industries actually used 109.04 billion yuan of foreign capital.

Among them, the actual use of foreign capital in e-commerce services, aerospace and equipment manufacturing, chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing, medical instruments and equipment manufacturing increased by 146%, 74.9%, 59.2% and 20% respectively.

The latest data released by the Ministry of Commerce yesterday showed that from January to May 2025, 24,018 new foreign-invested enterprises were established nationwide, an increase of 10.4% year-on-year.

According to reports, in addition to the huge demand brought by the super-large-scale market, since last year, my country has supported foreign-funded enterprises to participate in large-scale equipment updates and consumer goods trade-in, which has also allowed many multinational companies to see new trillion-level market opportunities.

Passionategeekz noticed that the State Council issued an approval on the “Comprehensive Pilot Work Plan for Accelerating the Opening-up of the Service Industry” in April this year, saying that on the basis of existing pilot areas, nine cities including Dalian, Ningbo, Xiamen, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Hefei, Fuzhou, Xi’an, and Suzhou will be included in the pilot scope. On the same day, the Ministry of Commerce and nine other departments issued the “Notice on Copying and Promoting the Experience of National Comprehensive Pilot and Model for Expanding the Opening-up of the Service Industry”.

In the past year, the number of foreign-funded R&D centers in Beijing has increased by more than 100, achieving exponential growth. As of May 2025, the total number of foreign-funded R&D centers in Shanghai has exceeded 600.

CCTV said that through localized innovation and production and supply chain coordination, foreign capital is achieving two-way empowerment with the Chinese market and win-win cooperation.

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