"The UK will also suffer in terms of lower inward investment and lost productivity gains through the stagnation of digital infrastructure," Mobile UK said in a statement.

We are right there beside our European clients supporting them with this inward investment.

The main difference between the Samsung Galaxy Fold and the Huawei Mate X foldable phone is that Samsung's display folds inward, while Huawei's folds outward.

Jiaxing is striving to optimize its investment structure and is receiving more inward capital in the high-tech service industry.

Since 2013, the inward foreign investment in service industry has seen an average annual growth rate of 12.6 percent in Zhejiang.

Within the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, all investment-related inward and outward remittances made by foreign investors will be allowed to flow freely as long as they are deemed aboveboard and compliant, according to a set of 31 new measures released by the Shanghai government on Thursday.

Similarly, the Beijing municipal commerce bureau said in a draft version of the city's foreign investment regulations released on Wednesday that it will support free inward and outward remittances of foreign investors' actual and authorized capital transfers related to investments.

In the Shanghai FTZ, all the inward and outward remittance of transfers related to investments made by foreign investors will be allowed to flow freely as long as they are true and compliant.

""This is not the time to turn inward.

Juergen Friedrich, chairman and CEO of Germany Trade& Invest, the country's foreign trade and inward investment agency, said China has been Germany's most important trading partner for six consecutive years, and the aggregate volume of bilateral trade reached a new record in 2021.

Juergen Friedrich, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Germany Trade & Invest, the country's foreign trade and inward investment agency, told Xinhua that China has been Germany's most important trading partner for six consecutive years and the aggregate volume of bilateral trade has reached a new record in 2021.

A developing Asia is the only region recording FDI growth, accounting for more than half of global inward and outward FDI flows," James Zhan, UNCTAD's director of investment and enterprise, said in a statement.

"Rather than turn inward as the myriad vagaries of world trade and a global pandemic besiege the region, we instead have chosen to come together, and that is certainly no small feat.

As some countries tended to turn inward and closed their doors amid the pandemic last year, China reaffirmed its commitment to trade of goods and services, and to investment, signing the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade agreement with 14 other countries, and concluding the negotiations of the China-EU investment treaty.

"This does not mean that China is closing its doors or turning inward.

- The inward direct investment to Macao jumped by 167.8 percent year-on-year to 53.99 billion patacas (about $6.76 billion) in 2019, the Special Administrative Region (SAR)'s statistic department said here on Wednesday.

In 2019, inward direct investment income rose by 8.6 percent year-on-year to 80.33 billion patacas (about $10.06 billion).

Income earned by inward direct investors in the gaming sector, financial activities and the wholesale and retail sector grew by 6.1 percent, 5.2 percent and 1.9 percent respectively to 45.19 billion patacas (about $5.66 billion), 14.38 billion patacas (about $1.80 billion) and 8.28 billion patacas (about $1.04 billion) respectively.

At the end of 2019, the accumulated inward direct investment totaled 346.63 billion patacas (about $43.42 billion), up by 21.2 percent year-on-year.

Analyzed by industry, the accumulated inward direct investment in the gaming sector rose by 37.2 percent year-on-year to 181.21 billion patacas (about $22.70 billion).

The accumulated inward direct investment stock in financial activities grew by 12.8 percent year-on-year to 83.03 billion patacas (about $10.40 billion), with 57.7 percent of the capital coming from the Chinese mainland.

Cui Qiang, president of the Society and Public Welfare Journal, also one of the organizers of the event, said the exhibition aims to focus on the inward world of children and teenagers and links the hearts of Chinese and foreign friends.

Africa is home to a hugely diverse economy, with businesses and entrepreneurs looking for better connections to create new markets and expand inward investment, said Yvonne Makolo, CEO of RwandAir.

Qi said inward investment will be one of the main drivers of economic growth on the premise that proper epidemic prevention and control measures have been put in place.

Country looks inward for high-tech materialsChina is sitting atop the biggest trove of strategic rare earth elements on the planet - 40 million metric tons, more than a third of the estimated global total.

In conjunction, the ministry also increased import tariffs on lithium batteries from 8 percent to 12 percent, a sign to encourage domestic production and attract inward investment from overseas, experts said.

- The inward direct investment flows to China's Macao Special Administrative Region decreased by 79.9 percent year-on-year to 3.01 billion patacas (about $373.3 million) in 2017, the SAR's statistics and census service said.

Analyzed by industry, flows of inward direct investment were mostly recorded in financial activities and construction, while the gaming sector recorded negative inflow.

The inward direct investment flows came mainly from the British Virgin Islands, the Chinese mainland and China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

In 2017, the inward direct investment income rose by 20.4 percent year-on-year to 58.65 billion patacas (about $7.27 billion).

With a return to Huawei's original inward folding design and a lower price tag than before, it marks the latest move by the company to sharpen its competence in the highly competitive foldable smartphones market as rivals are all betting big on the segment to expand presence in high-end products.

The Mate Xs 2 uses the same outward folding design of its predecessor, which made it unique in the market with most rivals choosing an inward folding design.

Global leadership is important so that Britain can take early advantage of the potential for 5G to create new opportunities for Britain's businesses at home and encourage inward investment -- both of which contribute to the creation of a world-leading digital economy, the report said.

It uses two microphones (one outward facing and one inward facing) along with advanced software to adapt to each ear for what Apple says is a "uniquely customized, superior noise-canceling experience".

The renminbi-denominated assets, including stocks and bonds, will remain attractive and the authorities are making efforts to encourage more inward foreign direct investment, said Li.

This came after the People's Bank of China, the central bank, released implementation rules in May to remove the quota limit for QFIIs and RQFIIs, simplify the procedures of repatriating investment income, and allow QFIIs and RQFIIs to choose currencies and the timing of inward remittance on their own.

"Meanwhile, in the face of the worsening international environment, Beijing's policy focus may turn increasingly inward, Lu added.

According to a statement issued by the PBOC and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, foreign investors under the QFII scheme will be allowed to make inward remittances in the currency of their choice.

Huo confirmed that constraints on cross-border financial transactions－both inward and outward－will gradually decrease until fully canceled.

According to early estimate of the World Bank, the development of BRI will likely influence the foreign direct investment activity in developing East Asia and Pacific region, because the initiative involves more than 60 countries and a combined inward FDI stock of around $6 trillion.

It also comes at a time when inward foreign investment declined by 1.2 percent between January and July to 485.4 billion yuan ($74.9 billion) compared to the same period last year, official data highlighted.