New foreign-invested firms up 16.2 pct in China in first 9 months of 2025

China saw 48,921 newly established foreign-invested firms in the first three quarters of 2025, a year-on-year increase of 16.2 percent, according to data released Saturday by the Ministry of Commerce.

During the same period, the actual foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow totaled 573.75 billion yuan (80.89 billion U.S. dollars), down 10.4 percent year on year. However, FDI in September alone rose 11.2 percent year on year, the data showed.

By sector, manufacturing attracted 150.09 billion yuan in actual FDI during the period, while the services sector drew 410.93 billion yuan.

Notably, investment from Japan, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and Switzerland surged by 55.5 percent, 48.7 percent, 21.1 percent, and 19.7 percent year on year, respectively, during the same period, the data showed.