China's Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been of considerable size since it opened to outside world, but it is imbalanced in terms of regional distribution. This paper explores the crucial regional factors affecting multinational enterprises (MNEs) to investment in China and provides corresponding suggestions.Traditional factors include natural recourses, comparative labor cost, market capability and capital productivity. The aggregate factors include infrastructure, congregate economy, human resources, perfect government and law system, and etc.In China, FDI has been concentrated in east coastal provinces and along the Cheng Jiang River. Recently, there was a major shift from the south to the north and the middle reaches of Chang Jiang River. This paper summarizes regional situation of FDI and analyzes the regional factors contributing to the situation from the investing (Japan, Korea, US and Germany) and host countries. At last, the thesis also gives advice on regional factors in order to attract more FDI and make the even development of them in China.
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