Foreign-funded enterprises in China exported high-tech products worth US$192 billion in 2005, accounting for 43.2 percent of its total export, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce.

Meanwhile foreign-funded enterprises imported high-tech products worth US$157.98 billion, accounting for 40.8 percent of its total import, the ministry said.

The government has promulgated a series of policies to encourage foreign investment to flow into the high-tech sector. Figures show during China's 10th Five-Year Plan period (2001-2005), more than US$70 billion of foreign investment were ploughed into the high-tech sector.

The proportion of high-tech products in foreign-funded enterprises' exports rose 18.2 percentage points in the past five years, according to the ministry.

(Xinhua News Agency January 28, 2006)