China's FDI up 23.6% in 2008

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China jumped 23.58 percent annually to 92.395 billion U.S. dollars last year, Yao Jian, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, said Thursday.

But the rate for the whole of 2008 was lower than the 26.3 percent for the first 11 months of last year and 35 percent for the first 10 months.

Source:Xinhua