The amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) China received in July rose by 29.2 percent year on year to 6.924billion U.S. dollars, said Yao Jian, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce (MOC), Tuesday.

The figure brought the country's FDI inflow to 58.35 billion U.S. dollars in the first seven months of the year, an increase of 20.65 percent from a year earlier.