Beijing - China's foreign direct investment in May increased 7.8% to $9.25bn from a year earlier, the commerce ministry said on Thursday.
The ministry did not provide a growth figure in dollar tems.
In the first five months of the year, FDI grew 10.5% from a year earlier to 331.0 billion yuan.
Non-financial outbound direct investment increased 47.4% to 278.4 billion yuan over the same period.