In the first half of 2026, foreign capital inflows into China's high-tech services and manufacturing sectors increased by 61% year on year, accounting for 36% of total paid-in capital, up 11 percentage points from the same period last year, according to an official of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange. It reflected a shift with foreign investors moving beyond China's cost and scale advantages in manufacturing to increasingly participating in "Created in China," said the official.