China bucks global trend of FDI slide in 2018: UN report

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Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows continue their slide in 2018, a United Nations agency said Monday while noting that China, however, bucked that trend and was the largest investment recipient in the world.

XinhuaUpdated: January 22, 2019

A participant reads the 2019 Investment Trends Monitor in Geneva, Switzerland, Jan. 18, 2019. Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows continue their slide in 2018, a United Nations agency said Monday while noting that China, however, bucked that trend and was the largest investment recipient in the world. Global FDI fell by 19 percent in 2018 to an estimated US$1.2 trillion from US$1.47 trillion in 2017, said UNCTAD. [Photo/Xinhua]

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