According to the statistics of the Investment Commission of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, two hundred and one (201) FDI projects, with a total amount of US$960.29 millions, were registered in March 2010. From the first three months of this year, there are four hundred and thirty five (435) FDI projects approved with a total of US$1,694.4 millions cumulatively, which reflects an increase of 25.72% in project numbers, and a growth of 50.3% in investment amount, in comparison with the same period of 2009.
As to inbound investment from Mainland China, which was open since June 30, 2009, only one (1) project were approved in March 2010, with an investment amount of US$262,000. Aggregated from July 2009 to March 2010, thirty-nine (39) projects were approved, with a total amount of US$68,939,000.
The projects of outward investment approved in March 2010 world-wide, except to Mainland China, were nineteen (19), and the total amount was US$528,661,000. Accumulated from January to March of 2010, forty-eight (48) outbound investment projects were registered, which shows a decrease of 20% over the same period of 2009. The total outbound investment amount was US$711,906,000 for the first three months of the year, an increase of 55.29% compared with the same period of 2009.
In terms of Taiwan’s outward investment to Mainland China, twenty-eight (28) investment projects have been approved in March 2010, total investment amounted US$871,036,000. Outbound investment to Mainland China accumulated to one hundred (100) projects in the first three months of the year, which indicates an increase of 132.56%. Taiwan’s total investment into Mainland China amounted to US$2,243,060,000 for the first three months of 2010, which shows a growth of 188.4%, compared with the same period of the previous year. Among the Mainland China investment projects in 2010, nearly 70 percent were follow-on capital increase of the previous applications.
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