It was known by the reporter from the Ministry of Commerce on February 24 that in 2009, Chinese non-financial foreign direct investment stood at USD43.3b, up 6.5% year-on-year.

Wang Chao, assistant commerce minister, introduced at the press conference of the fourth China International Fair for Investment and Trade that in 2009, China completed the turnover of foreign contracted projects of USD77.7b, up 37.3% year-on-year, with that of foreign labor service cooperation of USD8.9b, up 10.6% year-on-year, and the laborers of all sorts sent overseas throughout the year reached 395,000. China will continuously encourage and support qualified Chinese enterprises to investment overseas to carry out the business of foreign investment cooperation.