Foreign investment in China falls in September

1:34 pm | Friday, October 19th, 2012

Real estate agents hold foreign properties promotion sales placards at an entrance to the China Property and Investment Show in Beijing on September 21. AP

BEIJING—Foreign investment in China fell again in September and a government spokesman said it was too early to forecast a recovery in trade.

The Ministry of Commerce said Friday that foreign direct investment declined 6.8 percent from a year earlier to $8.4 billion. FDI includes investment in factories and other assets but excludes stocks and other financial instruments.

Ministry spokesman Shen Danyang said it was too early to say trade growth is recovering from its slump despite a 9.9 percent rise in exports in September. Shen said global conditions were still difficult and uncertain.

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junsepara

this is good news, if china goes down they can’t bully small countries like us now, I hope it goes down, way way down, and go back the way they are before, and the chinese are arrogant and yet brainless and copycat people!!

http://twitter.com/HChiffon chiffon

PH depends on China !!

Wish China the best !!

ThudOthwacker

Give it another year. The bubble will burst. Remember the Asian financial crisis specifically Thailand property bubble. China’s situation are 1000 times of it. Arrogant Chinese will be powerless to counter events leading to economic melt down. They’ll be seating on the curb with misty eyes and mucus dripping from one nostril.

http://twitter.com/HChiffon chiffon

Old man can’t see far.

It was China who saved all Asean in 1997 financial crisis.

no one on this planet thinks the same way as you did, because we are sane !!

ThudOthwacker

“It was China who saved all Asean in 1997 financial crisis.” ~chiffon

LOL Where did you get that asinine notion? It was the IMF that bailed out the most affected countries. Obviously you’re a blind Sinophil. Ignorant pretentious faux intellect.

China’s position now compare to Thailand are more vulnerable. Public debts are in trillion, property prices are soaring in a country with an average per capita of $8,000 plus, 50% are vacants in Beijing alone, declining direct investment and lower export. Means trouble, big trouble in China.

For historian, histories are written records of life and events. But for economist, histories are use as clues for impending economic events.

China will be in a rude awakening. You think bankers will spare China? LOL Think again! The Asian crisis was triggered by Soros and Co.. China is much bigger pie to ignore. The rumours of the bubble are widely known for years. Just waiting for the right time to burst.

joboni96

this is the future

if japan eu us
know what’s good for them

they better invest in
asean
india
latam
russia
africa

or else their money
will be used to make weapons
to neutralize them

tsina
to warring states period
dannyflorencio

Foreign investments in China falls, ok lang yan kumpara mo sa pilipinas mula ng umupo si Noynoy abnoy since 2010 – Wells Fargo bank lang ang nag-invest sa pilipinas eh ! at ang masaklap pa yung mga investors na nasa pilipinas na naglabasan pa ng umupo si abnoy. Pumunta ka sa mga industrial park sa Calabarzon ngayon mistulang memorial park na lang sila kasi ang mga business locators nila naglipatan na sa ibang bansa like indonesia , thailand, vietnam and china na para bang may nakakahawang epidemya ang bansang pilpinas.

http://profile.yahoo.com/JKS7Y3WBUOJPOMTYPCRXSKW7KM Franzeline Perdubal

And you blame PNOY for that, Danny? It was a decade of rock-bottom political situation that drove them out.

If I were you, I would credit this current government in steering us into better economic position. Our local companies have seen and felt that, so stop whining.

Im proud to be a local investor and I thank the few good men and women in the govt who made it possible.

El_Gran_Capitan

Some people are moron like that danny, what china investment got to do with Philippine Government

http://www.facebook.com/boy.dalius Boy Dalius

BITTER NA TALANGKA! WAHAHAHA

El_Gran_Capitan

baka di naaambunan, di kagaya nun panahon ni GMA

http://profile.yahoo.com/465CURGZINDNOU5T3QJVWI7LIM Michiko

ang negativo mo naman, nalugi ba negosyo mo? or wala kang trabaho ngayon? or communista ka na walang magawa? mag basa at mag trabaho ka ng maayos, kung ako employer mo sinibak ko na ugali mong abnoy.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EDXEVEFHW2ZT5VWHDWBNM6XGE4 RyanE

Good news!

Noted foreign brands that are now made in China such as Sony and Nokia are of low quality that it eventually destroy the good reputation of those brands. I have bought before Sony Vaio and Nokia E72 but less than a year both were defective.

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