"The new rule will reduce the tax cost of investment in China, and will make investment in China more attractive, " he said.
In other words, and as Mr Wen implied, MG's importance is as a symbol of the kind of investment China wishes to make in the UK, to transform Chinese companies into owners of valuable brands rather than just sub-contractors for western businesses.
But none of these developments will have any significant impact on the bigger problems facing China and investment in China.
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It is hard to imagine anything more detrimental to the continuing development of Japan-China trade, as well as for Japanese investment in China in ventures producing for overseas markets.
Duplicative investment in China, and the consequent low utilization rate of capital investment, led to widespread industrialization and an explosive growth of human capital in modern manufacturing.
China has already produced blockbuster deals for Carlyle, including its investment in China Pacific Insurance, one of the greatest private equity deals ever.
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But the real concern is the risk that the U.S. and China might meet-in-the-middle on the matter of foreign direct investment: China allowing more of it, but the U.S. discouraging it from China.
No wonder that China's equity markets, for all their impressive size, financed less than 2% of total investment in China last year.
He said that venture came about because of a large publishing investment in China.
Fixed asset investment in China rose marginally on the month, seasonally adjusted, to 1.94 percent.
Foreign investment in China plummeted last year, but Zhejiang has not been hurt, officials say.
Take the China Investment Corporation (CIC), China's sovereign-wealth fund, which was founded in 2007.
Japanese companies have been adjusting to this reality by hugely expanding trade with and investment in China.
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Responsible for overseeing investment in China's high-speed rail network, Mr Liu came under investigation for allegedly embezzling funds.
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Likewise, 24 percent of Japanese manufacturers recently said they were considering delaying or reducing planned investment in China.
Doug Young lives in Shanghai and writes about tech investment in China for Techonomy and at www.youngchinabiz.com.
Developers are a big chunk of the economy-accounting for 33% of total investment in China's fixed assets last year.
Since most capital investment in China is financed via debt, unproductive capital investments create debts that cannot be repaid.
He has high hopes for the economic benefits of a calmer relationship with Russia, and of investment from China.
While Russia may be up in the air, Wal-Mart confirmed its increased investment in China this past weekend.
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And they warned that greater foreign investment in China will lead inevitably to a stronger, more threatening Chinese military.
Further, gold remains an important investment in China and India, plus central banks have been net buyers in recent years.
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Doug Young lives in Shanghai and writes opinion pieces about tech investment in China for Techonomy and at www.youngchinabiz.com.
Investment in China is 40% in manufacturing, 30% in property and the consumer, and the rest in infrastructure and heavy state industry.
Indeed one of the main, and underappreciated, functions of foreign investment in China has been to play venture capitalist to domestic entrepreneurs.
These shifts are already evident by looking at recent trends in inbound investment to China, much of it from the diaspora and tax havens.
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The Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister organisation of this newspaper, forecasts that by 2014 Liaoning will be the largest recipient of foreign investment in China.
Sixty-six percent will increase investment in China in next 12 months.
However, developed markets like the U.S. and EU are also receiving a tremendous amount of investment from China, in resource projects and in other industries.
This is especially true of the overseas Chinese (including those in Hong Kong and Taiwan), who handle some 70% of foreign direct investment into China.
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