Shotlist FILE: Beijing, China - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 1. Various of office building, signs of Ministry of Commerce; Chinese national flag 2. Aerial shots of cityscape FILE: Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, east China - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 3. Aerial shot of Suzhou Industrial Park 4. Aerial shot of building of German appliance maker Vorwerk 5. Various of automated machines in operation; components FILE: China - Exact Location and Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 6. Various of production line, auto assembly line 7. Foreign entrepreneur talking to Chinese counterparts 8. Equipment operating 9. Various of Chinese, foreign workers 10. Various of automatic arms operating 11. Various of worker, vehicles at warehouses FILE: Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, east China - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 12. Various of foreigners applying for business licenses 13. Various of foreigners shopping at small commodity market Hainan Province, south China - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 14. Aerial shots of cranes, containers, ships Storyline China saw 61,207 newly established foreign-invested firms in the first 11 months of 2025, a year-on-year increase of 16.9 percent, according to data released Friday by the Ministry of Commerce. During the period, the actual foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow totaled 693.18 billion yuan (about 98 billion U.S. dollars), down 7.5 percent year on year. However, FDI in November alone jumped 26.1 percent year on year, the data showed. By sector, manufacturing attracted 171.72 billion yuan (about 24 billion U.S. dollars) in actual FDI during the 11-month period, while the services sector drew 506.29 billion yuan (about 71 billion U.S. dollars). Investment in high-tech industries remained robust, totaling 221.26 billion yuan. Investment from Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and Britain surged by 67 percent, 47.6 percent and 19.3 percent year on year, respectively, during the same period, according to the data.