China’s Ministry of Commerce announced on Friday that realized foreign direct investment in China shrank by 4% year-on-year to 766.71 billion yuan in the first seven months of the year, according to Reuters.
In 2022, foreign direct investment in China increased by 6.3% from the previous year.
Despite this, the Chinese economy in 2022 recorded the lowest annual growth in about 50 years due to the outbreak of the corona epidemic and the real estate crisis witnessed by the country by 3 %.