外资金融机构在中国发展已有相当规模。香港的南洋商业银行率先于1980年在深圳设立分行,随后东亚、渣打、汇丰和华侨四家外资银行先后在上海开业。 在代表处没立方面,截至1993年12月底,已有30个国家和地区的金融机构在中国18个城市设立了302个代表处。按金融机构类型计算,银行代表处208家,保险公司代表处40家,证券公司代表处25家,财务公司代表 Foreign-funded financial institutions have enjoyed a considerable scale of development in China. Hong Kong’s Nanyang Commercial Bank took the lead in setting up a branch in Shenzhen in 1980, followed by four foreign banks in East Asia, Standard Chartered, HSBC and overseas Chinese in Shanghai. In the absence of representative offices, as of the end of December 1993, financial institutions in 30 countries and regions have set up 302 representative offices in 18 cities in China. According to the type of financial institutions, there are 208 bank branches, 40 representative offices of insurance companies, 25 representative offices of securities companies, representatives of finance companies