China's government has been fine-tuning economic policy settings since the autumn of last year as the outlook for the global economy darkened, export growth sank and capital inflows - a core component of money supply stalled, according to a Reuters report.
This prompted some reshoring -- the process of returning jobs and manufacturing to the company's home country -- of manufacturing activity, Shen said while insisting this will not become a general trend, state-run China Daily reported.
Foreign investment declined by 6.8 per cent year-on-year to $8.43 billion in September, ministry spokesman Shen Danyang told the media in Beijing.
China will open up service sectors such as education, finance and culture for FDI to remain an attractive destination for overseas investment.
China's FDI growth saw ups and downs in the first 11 months of 2015.
For the January-May period this year, the foreign direct investment, which excludes investment in the financial sector, came in at $48.9 billion up 2.8 per cent from the same period last year, the Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday.
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