FDI to stay in recovery mode next year

Driven by improvements in sectors such as high-tech manufacturing, green energy and digital industries, the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) is expected to continue recovering in China in 2025, market watchers and foreign business executives said on Monday.

From January to November, the actual use of FDI stood at 749.7 billion yuan ($103 billion), down 27.9 percent year-on-year. This fall narrowed by 1.9 percentage points compared to the January-October period, marking the third consecutive month of narrowing declines, latest data from the Ministry of Commerce showed.

Despite challenges such as rising geopolitical tensions and disruption of global supply chains in international business, many multinational corporations' "wait-and-see" attitude toward cross-border investment as well as a slow economic recovery in many parts of the world, China saw its actual utilized FDI grow by 6 percent year-on-year in November.