Study On The Location Choice Factors Of FDI In China’s Electronic Information Industry

This paper studied on the factors influencing the location choice of FDI in China’s electronic information industry. First, this paper introduced the development process and the status quo of FDI in China’s electronic information industry. On the basis of relevant theory and literature, this paper analyzed the factors influencing the location choice of FDI in China’s electronic information industry, including market factors, cost factors, location factor, infrastructure factors, agglomeration factors, technological factors and policy factors. Then, taking the relevant data of26provinces of China in2010as sample, the author used the method of factor analysis to analyze the factors influencing the location choice of FDI in China’s electronic information industry. Factor analysis results showed that foreign industrial agglomeration factor, invest environmental factors and macroeconomic development factor are the main factors influencing location choice of FDI in China’s electronic information industry. Then, this paper gives a case study of Intel Corporation to analyze the factors influencing Intel’s location choice in detail. The result showed that Intel paid attention to the comprehensive investment environment, consisting of cost factor, location factor, industrial agglomeration factor, the level of opening up, the quality of talent, infrastructure factors and soft invest environmental, etc. Finally, this paper gave the suggestions to the central and western regions on how to attract more FDI in electronic information industry.