Foreign investment in China up 6.2% in first 9 months

BEIJING: Foreign investment in China rose 6.2% on year in the first nine months of 2013, the government said Thursday, but warned that the world's No 2 economy still faced domestic and external headwinds.

And while the commerce ministry said Chinese investment overseas had increased sharply over the first nine months of the year, the amount of cash going to Japan had almost halved as a diplomatic row with Tokyo drags on.