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China Foreign Direct Investment Rises 12 Percent in First Half
By Nipa Piboontanasawat
Assembly at the Changan Ford plant in Chongqing July 12 (Bloomberg) -- Foreign direct investment in China, the world's fastest-growing major economy, climbed 12.2 percent in the first half from a year earlier.
Spending rose to $31.9 billion, the Ministry of Commerce said today on its Web site. The pace has quickened from a 9.9 percent increase in the first five months. For June alone, foreign direct investment jumped 21.9 percent to $6.6 billion.
Low manufacturing costs and a pool of 1.3 billion increasingly affluent consumers are luring foreign companies to set up factories. Overseas-invested plants account for more than half of the surging exports that pushed the nation's trade surplus in June to a monthly record of $26.9 billion, the government says.
``Foreign direct investment still has a huge potential to grow,'' said Paul Tang, chief economist at Bank of East Asia Ltd. in Hong Kong. ``As China tries to boost domestic demand, more and more foreign companies will establish a presence to cater to that market.''
Investment inflows have made China the world's biggest producer of cell phones, computers and clothes. Factories built with overseas money made 58 percent of the nation's record $969 billion of exports in 2006, according to the commerce ministry.
Metaldyne Corp., a Michigan-based producer of automotive parts, last month opened a $10 million plant in the Chinese province of Suzhou. The company will invest as much as $50 million in China over the next five years, chairman and chief executive officer Tim Leuliette said on June 27.
Rising Incomes
China's economy, the world's fourth largest, grew 11.1 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier. Disposable incomes in urban areas jumped 19.5 percent and rural households' earnings climbed 15.2 percent.
Aeon Co., Japan's largest supermarket operator, may spend up to 15 billion yuan ($2 billion) to add stores in China in the next five years to compete with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Carrefour SA, the company said on June 26.
China was the world's fourth-largest recipient of foreign direct investment in 2006 after the U.S., U.K. and France according to the United Nations. Spending by overseas companies climbed 4.5 percent from a year earlier to $63 billion. Including the financial industry, investment fell 4.1 percent to $70 billion.
In the first six months, the nation's trade surplus grew 84 percent from a year earlier to $112.5 billion.