Where does it belong to?
The sentence is "China's foreign direct investment rose 3.3 percent year-on-year to 701.16 billion yuan in the January-October period".

I can not figure out to where the "foreign direct investment" belongs .
Does it mean China's investment in abroad countries or foreign countries' investment in China?

Someone please help me and if possible, give a method to distinguish such kinds of example.

Question

Where does it belong to?
The sentence is "China's foreign direct investment rose 3.3 percent year-on-year to 701.16 billion yuan in the January-October period".

I can not figure out to where the "foreign direct investment" belongs . 
Does it mean China's investment in abroad countries or foreign countries' investment in China?

Someone please help me and if possible, give a method to distinguish such kinds of   example.

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Hello, Edi Wang. 
China's foreign direct investment=foreign investment (FDI) in China

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I must make two points:
1) This English sentence was clearly not written by someone who speaks English well.  The phrase "rose 3.3 percent year-on-year" is something I can understand, but no English speaker would say that.  Nobody says "year-on-year" in English.  I assume this person means "per year".
2) It still seams clear to me that the sentence is talking about investment coming from China and going to foreign nations.  But since the speaker does not speak English well, he may not have communicating his meaning well.  Understand?  But that is probably what he meant.

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Still confusing, Olga said it's the Foreign investment in China, Adam said it's China's investment abroad, then who is right? My question stand firmly.

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