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Increasingly, foreign investors have started to choose central China as an ideal destination in recent years.Statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics show that foreign investment in the six central provinces increased 47.2 percent on average last year, much faster than the country's average of 13.8 percent. Shanxi Province saw the highest growth of 88.6 per-cent and Henan Province ranked second with a growth rate of about 60 percent.