Top Ten Asian Cities For FDI in 2012. China Snares Three.

Hong Kong probably doenst count as “China” as far as measuring FDI does it… investment from HK to China is considered FDI, and HK is separate enough to consider it different from China

“What do you think of this list? ”
I never could figure out why the rest of the world dumps the Pacific in with Asia. We have our own identity.
Why Auckland? It is NZ’s largest city and economic centre. It also has woefully inadequate public transport and clogged roads. It is also sitting on a volcanic field. The isthmus is 1km wide at its narrowest point (Portage Road), with the CBD and port north of that chokepoint and most of NZ’s agriculture to the south. You won’t be shipping much milk powder to China if you ship via Auckland and something happens to block that chokepoint. Tauranga has a difficult harbour entrance but is much less prone to being cut off from the rest of the country. Wellington and Dunedin have IT and TV/film industries to rival Auckland and good, sheltered ports. Christchurch’s faultlines will shake themselves out and then Christchurch will be in reconstruction mode and if I were a gambler I’d put serious money on central and local government putting in place policies to encourage FDI to Christchurch. It is, after all, NZ’s second biggest city and the biggest in the South Island, and the South Island offers high quality wool and sheep meat, coal, gold, adventure tourism, export education (i.e. attracting international students) and potential oil and gas, among other things.
The Australian cities listed happen to all be state capitals, the three biggest and Perth. I’m not sure how Perth compares to Adelaide, Hobart and Canberra in terms of population, but it’s certainly the biggest city in Western Australia. NZ is consistently ranked the world’s third freeest economies after Hong Kong and Singapore, so why are three Australian cities ranked higher than Auckland? I have read recently that Australia’s mining boom has trashed the rest of the economy, and the term “Dutch disease” has been thrown around. Australia seems to have plenty of every resource, but it is desperately lacking in fresh water, with the agricultural heartland in the Murray-Darling basin especially prone to drought.
Considering Hong Kong and Singapore are consistently ranked the world’s two freeest economies and have always depended on their ports and international trade, they’re too easy to pick. And considering Hong Kong has its own legal and economic systems separate from the Mainland, it should perhaps be listed separately. So without wishing to engage in any kind of political splittism, I count two Chinese cities in the list. Can’t tell you why those two were chosen, though.
No, I’m certainly not an expert, but I can find plenty of reasons to quibble with the Australasian cities chosen, and that has me wondering why the other cities (other than Hong Kong and Singapore) were chosen. But [subscription required] warnings cause me to ignore links and I have more important things to do.

China is now the #2 source of outbound FDI. I expect most of the investment going into Australia is Chinese money buying up all the minerals.
Most of the investment in Hong Kong is probably rich Chinese buying $50 million homes on the Peak to get permanent residency.

Unfair to put Australia and NZ in the same league with Asian countries. We are not a part of Asia, we are a part of Oceania. Australia and NZ are Western countries, not Asian countries.