Chip-making sector still welcomes overseas investments

Leading industry experts expect the chip-making industry to continue attracting more overseas investment, including from Taiwan, one of the mainland's biggest technology suppliers.

They said that with a continued lack of necessary techniques in the home market, reliance will continue on imported, high-end semiconductor technologies in 2016, even if gross domestic product growth slows further.

"The weak chip-production power is a bottleneck for the entire information technology industry, which the government sees as a major booster for the economy," said Ye Tianchun, director of the Institute of Microelectronics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.