Ministry of Commerce of China: Leverage the advantages of a super-large scale and unified market to create new advantages for attracting foreign investment

According to the Shanghai Securities Journal, the National Foreign Investment Work Conference and Key Foreign Investment Project Working Group Meeting for 2026 was recently held in Beijing. The meeting emphasized that 2026 is the starting year of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and foreign investment work should be guided by deepening the reform of the foreign investment promotion system and mechanism, fully leveraging the advantages of the mainland's super-large scale and unified market, and focusing on shaping new advantages in attracting foreign investment to promote stable and optimized foreign investment work through expanded high-level opening up.

The meeting required integrating foreign investment stabilization work with various economic tasks such as expanding domestic demand, boosting consumption, and technological innovation, and implementing comprehensive policies. It actively supports foreign enterprises in participating in consumption-boosting actions, deeply explores new growth points for attracting investment in the service industry, and fully implements "access and operation." It also calls for increased efforts to promote foreign investment, carefully create the "Invest in China" brand, actively promote reinvestment by foreign capital and localized production; improve the foreign investment service guarantee system, and accelerate the construction of key foreign investment projects; effectively carry out risk prevention and standardized investment promotion, and ensure proper foreign investment statistics and information reporting to ensure a good start for foreign investment work during the 14th Five-Year Plan period