A new UN report shows China attracted a record 139-billion US dollars in foreign direct investment last year, ranking third in the world, following only the United States and Britain.

 

一份联合国新报告显示，2016年中国吸收了创记录的1390亿美元外商直接投资，在美国和英国之后世界排名第三。

 

The increase of 2.3-percent FDI growth comes amid last year's global decline of 13 percent.

 

At this year's meeting of the World Economic Forum¹ in Davos, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a point of signaling that China remains² open for investment, and will be doing what it can to ensure world investment growth continues.

 

For more on this, The Beijing Hour's Shane Bigham spoke³ earlier with John Ross, Senior Fellow with the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University.

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