Bloomberg
China has surpassed the United States for the first time since 2003 to be the world’s largest recipient of global foreign direct investment in the first half of 2012, showing that global investors are still confident in the world’s second-largest economy despite its economic slowdown. FDI inflows to China amounted to $59 billion in the first half of this year, despite a year-on-year decline of 3 percent from $61 billion in the first half of last year.