印度财政部长Po奇丹巴拉姆(P. Chidambaram)昨日接受本报专访时表示，印度若想保持9%的经济增速，则必须进一步对外国直接投资敞开大门。

India must open up further to foreign direct investment if it is to maintain a growth rate of 9 per cent, P. Chidambaram, the finance minister, told the FT in an interview yesterday.

他指出，（若要保持经济高速增长，）关键在于保持目前大约34%-35%的投资率。投资率是指投资占GDP的比例。2004-05财政年度，印度的投资率为30.1%。

Sustaining an investment rate of now close to 34-35 per cent of gross domestic product would be the key, he said. In 2004-05, investment was 30.1 per cent of GDP.

他表示："这意味着我们必须保持一个非常激励投资（包括内资和外资）的宏观环境：充足的流动性，良好的信贷流，开放更多当前受到严密监管的行业，开放外国直接投资，鼓励创新型融资--特别是在基础设施领域。"

"This means we must keep the environment very enabling for investment, both domestic and foreign: ample liquidity, good flow of credit, opening up more sectors which are closed or too tightly regulated, opening up to foreign direct investment and looking for innovative financing especially in infrastructure," he said.