Ministry of Commerce: Integrate and implement comprehensive measures to stabilize foreign investment work with expanding domestic demand, boosting consumption, and promoting technological innovation and other economic work.

The National Foreign Investment Work Conference and the Work Special Class Meeting on Key Foreign Investment Projects in 2026 was held in Beijing on January 14-15. The meeting emphasized the integration of stabilizing foreign investment work with expanding domestic demand, boosting consumption, and promoting technological innovation, and implementing comprehensive measures, actively supporting foreign enterprises to participate in stimulating consumption, exploring new growth points for investment in the service industry, and fully implementing the principle of "admittance for operations"; intensifying efforts to promote foreign investment, carefully building the brand "Invest in China," actively promoting reinvestment by foreign capital within China and localization of production. The meeting concluded that in 2025, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the national commerce system actively worked and made progress, the policy on stabilizing foreign investment was continuously strengthened, the pilot work for independent opening-up was advanced, the "Invest in China" brand activities were carried out in an orderly manner, the services and guarantees for foreign enterprises continued to be strengthened, and the innovation and upgrading of open platforms accelerated, achieving overall stabilization and improvement. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China's scale of attracting foreign investment ranked first among developing countries, and its status as a major recipient of foreign investment was maintained, the structure continued to optimize, and all the target tasks for foreign investment were successfully completed. The meeting emphasized that relationships between major countries affect the international situation, and global cross-border direct investment continues to decline. It is necessary to coordinate between domestic economic activities and international economic and trade tensions, adhere to opening up to break the encirclement. The year 2026 marks the beginning of the 15th Five-Year Plan period. Foreign investment work must be based on the "three important" positions of commerce work, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the CPC and the various plenary sessions of the Party Central Committee, conscientiously implement the deployment of the Central Economic Work Conference, according to the requirements of the National Commerce Work Conference, take the deepening of foreign investment promotion system and mechanism reform as the traction, give full play to the advantages of China's ultra-large scale and unified large market, focus on shaping new advantages in attracting foreign investment, and promote foreign investment work to stabilize, promote, and improve: First, integrate stabilizing foreign investment work with expanding domestic demand, stimulating consumption, promoting technological innovation, and other economic work, actively support foreign enterprises to participate in stimulating consumption, deeply explore new growth points for investment in the service industry, and fully implement the principle of "admittance for operations"; Second, intensify efforts to promote foreign investment, carefully build the brand "Invest in China," actively promote reinvestment by foreign capital within China and localization of production; Third, improve the service guarantee system for foreign investment, promote the rapid construction of key foreign investment projects, and promote the high-quality development of national economic and technological development zones and other open carriers; Fourth, coordinate development and security, effectively prevent risks; Fifth, adhere to the correct view of achievements, regulate investment promotion, and do well in foreign investment statistics and information reporting work to ensure the successful start and progress of foreign investment work in the 15th Five-Year Plan period. Representatives from some central and state organs, as well as commerce authorities from provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, attended the meeting. This article is compiled from the Ministry of Commerce, GMTEight Editor: Chen Wenfang.