{"id":72624,"date":"2017-12-10T15:13:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T22:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=72624"},"modified":"2017-12-10T15:13:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T22:13:47","slug":"china-leads-foreign-direct-investments-fdi-into-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/12\/10\/china-leads-foreign-direct-investments-fdi-into-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"China leads foreign direct investments (FDI) into Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy\u00a0 Shanghai Daily<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>CHINA has accounted for 35 percent of foreign direct investments into Sri Lanka up to September this year, with FDI for 2017 expected to total US$1.36 billion, local media said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the Ministry of Development Strategies and International Trade, there has been a strong uptick\u201d in exports and FDI into Sri Lanka this year.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Board of Investment indicates a substantial uptick in FDI inflows to the country of US$795.5 million during January to September this year, 80 percent higher than the same period last year and already exceeding the full year 2016,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>FDI from China is around 35 percent of FDI to date, while India\u2019s is 16.4 percent and Singapore\u2019s is 9.3 percent,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>Other top 10 countries for FDI into Sri Lanka include Netherlands, Britain, Japan, Malaysia, Sweden, and Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy\u00a0 Shanghai Daily CHINA has accounted for 35 percent of foreign direct investments into Sri Lanka up to September this year, with FDI for 2017 expected to total US$1.36 billion, local media said on Saturday. According to a statement from the Ministry of Development Strategies and International Trade, there has been a strong uptick\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}