The foreign direct investment (FDI) China attracted in August climbed 11.1 percent year-on-year to 8.446 billion U.S. dollars, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday.
商务部（MOC）周四表示，八月份，中国吸引外商直接投资（FDI）同比增长11.1%，金额为84.46亿美元。
The growth rate slowed down from an increase of 19.83 percent in July, when the FDI reached 8.297 billion U.S. dollars.
比7月份增长19.83％，增速放缓，七月份的外商直接投资达82.97亿美元。
The August figures brought the total FDI for the first eight months of this year to 77.63 billion U.S. dollars, up 17.7 percent year-on-year, the MOC said in a statement on its website.
商务部网站上的声明中称，八月份的数据使今年前八个月的外商直接投资总额达到776.3亿美元，同比增长17.7%。
China approved the establishment of 18,006 foreign-invested companies in the first eight months of 2011, up 7.68 percent year-on-year, according to the MOC.
根据商务部的报道，2011年前八个月，中国批准外商投资公司18006家，同比增加7.68%。