BOAO, Hainan, Apr. 11(Xinhua) -- India’s dependence on the direct investment inflows from China has increased significantly from 1.15 percent in 2015 to 34 percent in 2016, according to a recent report about the Asian economic integration released at the annual conference of Boao Forum for Asia (BFA).
According to the report, China's Hong Kong remains the largest source of foreign investment to the Chinese mainland. It is worth noting that the Chinese mainland also replaced the British Virgin Islands for the first time as Hong Kong’s largest source of foreign investment, with the investment share increasing from 14.9 percent in 2015 to 28.18 percent in 2016.
The report points out that among the major Asian economies, China has the highest degree of dependence on Asian funds, which reached a record of 82.8 percent in 2015 and dropped to 78.44 percent in 2016. India’s dependence on Asian funds has also increased significantly, from less than 20 percent in 2008 to a new high of 44.66 percent in 2016.
According to the report, the index of foreign capital dependency measures the degree of dependence of an economy on the direct investment inflows from another economy. (Contributed by Yu Rui, Chen Biqi, edited by Hu Pingchao, hupingchao@xinhua.org)
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