China's actual use of foreign investment dropped year-on-year 2.12 percent to 48.411 billion US dollars in the first 10 months of this year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Commerce on Monday.

During the January-October period, the number of newly foreign-funded enterprises came to 35,300, up 0.48 percent year on year, with the contractual use of foreign funds standing at 145 billion dollars, an increase of 22.53 percent from the same period of 2004.

The top 10 investors include Hong Kong, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United States, Singapore and China's Taiwan Province and Germany.

Source: Xinhua