At the end of 2021, Nuevo León captured 4,026.2 million dollars, which represented a year-on-year increase of 30.11%, and exceeded the pre-pandemic figures with 23%, when compared to the last quarter of 2019, data from the Secretariat of the Federal Economy indicate. 

In 2022, it is expected to reach 4,250 million dollars of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Iván Rivas Rodríguez, secretary of State Economy, told El Economista.

This projection is based on the reception of 18 confirmed FDI projects, for more than 800 million dollars and more than 10,000 jobs, many linked to Information Technology and Advanced Engineering, said the secretary.

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"Of course our backbone is manufacturing and industry, but investment is already beginning to arrive that has to do with Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Electromobility," said the local official.

The state Secretary of Economy highlighted the FDI that Nuevo León received in the fourth quarter of 2021, which amounted to 921.7 million dollars, which represented 24.3% of all national investment.

“Investment is coming to Nuevo León, due to the human capital we have, 8,000 engineers graduated per year and 20,000 technicians; also because of the new infrastructure that is being built, such as the La Gloria-Colombia highway, to bring the Monterrey metropolitan area closer to the United States; the growth of the Colombia Bridge and security, investors see it as an investment pole”, he specified.

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The United States continues to be the main origin of the companies that settle in the entity, with 3,074.1 million dollars, at the end of 2021, which meant 76.35% of state FDI.

Rivas Rodríguez recognized that the United States continues to be the main investor in Nuevo León, however, he said that FDI has been diversifying, since before the American Union represented 95% of the total, and now capital is received from Spain for 291.2 million; Japan 247.8 million; Germany 199.2 million and Argentina with 147.3 million dollars, among other countries.

In the national top five, Nuevo León ranked second behind Mexico City, with 5,056.9 million dollars, and preceded Baja California with 2,212.8 million, Jalisco with 2,098.3 million and Chihuahua with 1,843.4 million dollars.

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