China's actual use of foreign investment dropped year-on-year 1.9 percent to US$53.13 billion in the first 11 months of this year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday.

During the January-November period, the number of newly foreign-funded enterprises came to 39,679, up 1.17 percent year on year, with the contractual foreign funds of US$167.21 billion, an increase of 23.99 percent from the same period of 2004.

The top 10 investors include Hong Kong, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United States, Singapore, China's Taiwan Province and Germany.

(Xinhua News Agency December 14, 2005)