Since the beginning of the construction of the "Two Zones" (the Integrated National Demonstration Zone for Opening Up the Services Sector and the China (Beijing) Pilot Free Trade Zone), Beijing has established a unified project database for investment attraction. So far, a total of 23,000 projects have been implemented, including more than 2,600 foreign-invested projects with the total amount of foreign investment exceeding USD 70 billion. Notably, nearly 250 large-scale foreign investment projects, each worth over USD 50 million, have been launched, involving a total investment amount of more than USD 63 billion.

Beijing has also become home to a number of landmark foreign-invested projects, including China's first newly-established, wholly foreign-invested securities company, China's first wholly foreign-invested currency broker, R&D centers of leading foreign-owned pharmaceutical companies, and the Chinese headquarters of globally renowned technology transfer institutions.

Over the past five years, nearly 7,900 foreign-invested enterprises were established in Beijing. The amount of actually-utilized foreign investment in the city reached USD 66.18 billion, accounting for 8.4 percent of the national total, with the service sector using over 90 percent. Beijing also recognized 221 foreign-invested R&D centers, including that of AstraZeneca, of which more than 90 percent are in the high-end, precision, and cutting-edge industries.

(Source: Xinhua News Agency)