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Foreign direct investment into East China’s Anhui province in actual use expanded 28.3 percent year-on-year to $3.48 billion in the first two months of 2022, official data showed. The top ten countries and regions as investors in the province injected $3.47 billion between January and February, up 36.3 percent, said the Department of Commerce of Anhui Province. Hong Kong remained the biggest investor, pouring $2.71 billion into the province during the period, up 23.7 percent from the same period a year ago. Development zones at and above the provincial level attracted foreign capital worth $3.01 billion, an increase of 28.9 percent, while counties and county-level cities attracted $910 million, up 8.7 percent. The province’s secondary and tertiary sectors used $1.27 billion and $2.21 billion of foreign capital, accounting for 36.5 percent and 63.5 percent of the provincial total, respectively. Among all industries in the secondary sector, the manufacturing industry’s actual use of foreign investment reached $1.03 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 23.4 percent. Hefei, capital of the province, used $79.67 million of foreign capital in the Jan-Feb period, followed by Ma’anshan ($77.46 million), Chuzhou ($58.57 million), Wuhu ($47.87 million) and Suzhou ($9.03 million).
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