According to the Anhui Provincial Department of Commerce, in 2025 Anhui's actual utilized foreign investment reached RMB 26.8 billion, up 41.5% year‑on‑year. Of this, actual utilized foreign direct investment (FDI) was RMB 15.33 billion, up 23.9% year‑on‑year — the fastest growth rate in the country and the largest FDI total in China's central and western regions.

Since last year, the province has stepped up efforts to attract foreign investment by activating platform‑based investment functions, innovating FDI attraction models, and building an internationalized industrial ecosystem. Platforms such as the "Haike Roundtable" and the "Anhui Goes Global" partner program have been created to continuously introduce business resources; by focusing on key links in industrial and supply chains, Anhui has been building an integrated, efficiently coordinated industrial development ecosystem to give foreign firms strong support to establish and expand in the province; meanwhile, it has worked to create a stable, fair, transparent, and predictable business environment — a "comfortable ecosystem" — so that foreign enterprises can enter, stay, and thrive.

Adapting to local conditions to develop new quality productive forces, the province is building internationally competitive advanced manufacturing clusters. Last year, foreign investment into Anhui's manufacturing sector rose 44.1% year‑on‑year. Actual utilized FDI increased from RMB 12.04 billion in 2021 to RMB 15.33 billion in 2025, an average annual growth of 8.1%. Over the 14th Five‑Year Plan period, Anhui's cumulative actual utilized FDI grew 49.3% compared with the 13th Five‑Year Plan period.

The Department of Commerce said next steps will include cultivating a professional, internationalized investment promotion team versed in industry and international rules to raise the specialization of FDI attraction; carefully identifying target industries, projects, and companies to be recruited based on each locality's leading industries and promoting them globally; increasing overseas investment‑promotion task forces and organizing initiatives such as "Visits to Multinational Headquarters."

Source: Anhui Daily