According to data released by Ministry of Commerce of China, foreign direct investment (FDI) from Europe to China have reached 9.27 billion U.S. dollars, with an increase of even 81.8%. European figure is in absolute contrast to the general trend of the inflow of foreign capital to the country: FDI in China, in fact, have registered, for the first time since 2009, a significant decline. The statistics document that foreign direct investment in China fell by 7.3% in January 2013, after which in 2012 had already decreased by 3.7%, amounting in value to 111.72 billion. In particular, in January investments from the United States fell by 20.0 per cent, those ones from the top ten Asian economies, including Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore, by 9.0 per cent on an annual basis.

"Statistics have shown that the capital actually invested fell and the magnitude of the decline is not 'lightly”," said Shen Danyang, ministry spokesman, explaining that "there are still some good signals, such as growth of 34, 3% the number of new companies to foreign capital "(www.agichina24.it). In an important way to influence these results undoubtedly the increased cost of labor, which makes it less attractive investment in the country. In this sense, in fact, China is gradually losing its advantages as a destination for productive decentralization, circumstance, however, inevitable due to the country's transformation from a developing economy to an advanced economies. The result was affected also, inevitably, by the widespread attitude of prudence on a global level, due to tensions on the international economic scenario. Increasing, conversely, the number of foreign-owned companies incorporated in China and investments abroad by the Dragon.