China says January-February FDI up 2.7 percent year-on-year

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's non-financial foreign direct investment (FDI) rose 2.7 percent year-on-year in the January-February period to 141.88 billion yuan, or $22.52 billion, the Commerce Ministry said on Friday.

That compared with 17 percent growth in the same period last year.

The ministry didn't give a breakdown for FDI in February alone. But overall FDI fell 1.3 percent to $8.45 billion in February from a year earlier, according to Reuters calculations.

(Reporting by Beijing Monitoring Desk; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)