In the first 10 months of 2014, the country attracted $95.9 billion in FDI, the ministry said, down 1.2 percent from a year earlier.

In line with China's manufacturing slowdown, the MOFCOM data showed investors were flocking to the services industry.

The services sector attracted $53.1 billion worth of FDI in the first 10 months of the year, up 6.6 percent from the same period a year ago, and much higher than the $32.5 billion that flowed into the manufacturing industry.

Among the 10 countries that were the biggest investors in China in the first 10 months, investment from South Korea leapt 26.4 percent year-on-year and that from Britain surged 32.4 percent.

In contrast, investment from Japan in the first 10 months plunged 42.9 percent from a year earlier, while FDI from the US fell 16.2 percent and from the European Union it fell 23.8 percent, according to the Tuesday statistics.