United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) World Investment Report 2017, released on 22nd Jan 2018, revealed that China became the world's second largest recipient of FDI in 2017 only to US, attracting 144 billion USD in inflows, reached the highest record, meanwhile, China remained the leading destination among the developing countries.

On the same day, UNCTAD also released the latest report on Global Investment Trends Monitor, indicated that in 2017, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) of developed countries fell by 27% compare to last year, is the main reason for the decline in FDI, including Europe and North America dropped 27% and 33% respectively. 

According to the preliminary statistics, the FDI inflows in developing economies remain stable in 2017, it ran up to 653 billion USD and rose by 2 % compared with 2016.  Due to the attracted FDI inflows in developing economies of Asia has grown to 459 billion USD, with increased by 2 % than last year, which has overtaken EU and North America as the largest recipient of global FDI.

With the rapid growth of the world economy, global FDI are forecast to see a rebound in 2018 and increase to 1.8 trillion USD. However, Policy uncertainty and geopolitical risks could hamper the recovery, and tax policy changes of US could significantly affect cross-border investment, even changed the pattern of global foreign investment.