China Aug FDI up 18.7% y/y in yuan terms - commerce ministry

Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China jumped 18.7% in August from a year earlier, to 84.13 billion yuan ($12.31 billion), the commerce ministry said on Friday.

BEIJING, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China jumped 18.7% in August from a year earlier, to 84.13 billion yuan ($12.31 billion), the commerce ministry said on Friday.

In the January-August period, FDI rose 2.6% from a year earlier, to 619.78 billion yuan. ($1 = 6.8350 Chinese yuan renminbi) (Reporting by Stella Qiu and Ryan Woo; Editing by Alex Richardson)