A tornado swept across northeast China's Jilin Province on Monday afternoon, causing property damage but no casualties, local authorities reported.
Video footage shot by local eyewitnesses showed the giant gray vortex churning across open fields and kicking up dense clouds of debris as it touched down around Changshan Town in Jilin's Songyuan City.
The twister, which lasted about an hour starting around 15:00, ripped the roofs off several homes and damaged power infrastructure, leaving more than 200 households without electricity.
Officials said most of the affected homes had sheet metal roofs that were particularly vulnerable to the high winds brought by the tornado.
Power crews worked through the night to restore electricity and had completed repairs by Tuesday noon, according to the local power company.
Tornado sweeps across rural north China villages, damaging homes, power lines
China saw 61,207 newly established foreign-invested firms in the first 11 months of 2025, a year-on-year increase of 16.9 percent, according to data released Friday by the Ministry of Commerce.
During the period, the actual foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow totaled 693.18 billion yuan (about 98 billion U.S. dollars), down 7.5 percent year on year. However, FDI in November alone jumped 26.1 percent year on year, the data showed.
By sector, manufacturing attracted 171.72 billion yuan (about 24 billion U.S. dollars) in actual FDI during the 11-month period, while the services sector drew 506.29 billion yuan (about 71 billion U.S. dollars). Investment in high-tech industries remained robust, totaling 221.26 billion yuan.
Investment from Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and Britain surged by 67 percent, 47.6 percent and 19.3 percent year on year, respectively, during the same period, according to the data.
New foreign-invested firms up 16.9 pct in China in first 11 months
