China's Ministry of Commerce has said in a report that foreign direct investment in China saw its strongest surge in more than two years in June.

China attracted $14.4 billion of FDI last month, with a year-on-year increase of 20.12 percent. In the first half of 2013, FDI totaled $62 billion, up by 4.9 percent from the same period last year.

The amount of capital has left the world's second largest economy firmly on track to meet the government's target of $120 billion of inflows this year.

A separate report sponsored by a United Nations body said Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland saw the world's biggest foreign direct investment inflows last year, taking in a combined $196 billion, eclipsing the $168 billion invested in the United States.