Japanese investment on the up in China despite closures: MOC   

商務(wù)部否認在華日企“全面退出”

針對近期有一些日本企業(yè)關(guān)停在華工廠所引發(fā)的日企“全面退出”言論，中國商務(wù)部新聞發(fā)言人沈丹陽16日予以否認。沈丹陽介紹，2014年日資企業(yè)的終止、減資情況比較平穩(wěn)，終止企業(yè)數(shù)基本和2013年持平，減資企業(yè)數(shù)下降了3.2%。“應(yīng)該說日本企業(yè)對華投資是有進有出的，并沒有出現(xiàn)日資企業(yè)全面退出的情況。” [查看全文]

(ECNS) -- There's no indication of Japanese investment pulling out of China despite a few shutdowns, said Shen Danyang, a spokesman with the Ministry of Commerce (MOC), citing the latest January data at a press conference on Monday.

China saw a 46.9 percent increase in contractual investment and a 3.2 percent rise in actual investment from Japanese corporations.

Recently, a number of Japanese companies, including Panasonic, Toshiba and Citizen, closed their factories in China, resulting in many job losses.

Shen said that this was a normal phenomenon, and that a number of multinational corporations were reorganizing their businesses in the country due to management issues, rising labor and land costs, and slower Chinese economic growth.

The number of factory closures by Japanese enterprises in China during 2014 was the same as the year before, while the number of Japanese companies that reduced their investments in the country fell by 3.2 per cent, it was added.

On the whole, Japanese corporate investment in China remains on the rise, Shen said.