Foreign direct investment in China will grow steadily in 2013, despite ongoing global economic uncertainties, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on its website on Wednesday.

The statement came following comments made by Vice-Minister Wang Chao during the China Investment Policy Seminar in Hong Kong on Tuesday, in which he said the mainland still retained its competitive advantage for FDI.

Wang said that the FDI momentum "will be extended", while the quality and efficiency of growth will keep improving.