The Zhitong Finance App learned that according to data from the Statistics and Census Service of the Macao Special Administrative Region, due to reduced use of profits for reinvestment by foreign direct investors and the repayment of large loans by individual companies, foreign direct investment inflows into Macau in 2025 totaled 6.20 billion yuan (MOP, same below), a year-on-year decrease of 43.5%; among them, the main inflows were in the financial sector (7.81 billion yuan) and the construction industry (1.41 billion yuan). Furthermore, capital inflows into Macau mainly come from mainland China ($5.62 billion) and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ($7.47 billion).
In 2025, Macau recorded a total revenue of $42.51 billion. Among them, the gaming industry recorded income from FDI of $33.42 billion, while the financial industry and the wholesale and retail sector also recorded revenue of $12.67 billion and $5.57 billion respectively.
In terms of overseas investment, in response to the adjustment of the investment strategies of individual Macao enterprises in mainland China, in 2025, Macau enterprises recorded a negative flow of 1.93 billion yuan in overseas investment, but additional investment from the wholesale and retail industries and the banking industry in Macao was 1.38 billion yuan and 600 million yuan respectively.
By the end of 2025, the cumulative total amount of foreign direct investment and foreign direct investment was 403.7 billion yuan and 106.50 billion yuan respectively; of these, the total total amount of foreign direct investment invested in mainland China was 78.82 billion yuan, with cities in the Greater Bay Area accounting for 76.6%.