China remains a "highly attractive" destination for companies from the United States, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Wednesday, refuting a survey report published on the same day by a US business organization.

In the 2017 China Business Climate Survey Report, the American Chamber of Commerce in China said more than 80 percent of its 462 member companies surveyed "feel foreign businesses are less welcome in China than before", and more than 60 percent expressed a lack of confidence in the Chinese government's commitment to further opening China's markets.

In response, Hua quoted statistics issued by the Ministry of Commerce, which show that the US' actual investment in China witnessed a year-on-year increase of 52.6 percent in 2016.