According to the statistics of news release of foreign invest-ment, from January to March 2009, foreign-invested en-terprises newly approved for establishment reached total number of 4554, a decreased 34.47% as compared with that of the same period last year; and the actual use of foreign investment reached US$21.777 billion, a decreased 20.56% as compared with that of the same period last year. (See Chart 1)