China approved additional 3,370 foreign funded firms in January of 2007, a rise of 10.71 percent year-on-year, with the actual use of 5.175 billion US dollars, an increase of 13.86 percent over the 2006 same period, according to sources available from the Ministry of Commerce.

In term of their actual investment in China during January, the top 10 overseas investors (countries or regions) are in order of Hong Kong, the British Virgin Islands (in the Caribbean Sea), the Republic of Korea, Japan, Singapore, the United States, Mauritius, China's Taiwan province, the Cayman Islands (in the West Indies) and Samoa in south Pacific, note the relevant statistics. The amount of their actual input made up 86.62 percent of the total China had actually put to use in the month.

By People's Daily Online