Foreign direct investment in China grew steadily in the first 10 months of the year amid sweeping government reforms that are expected to reshape the world's second-largest economy.

FDI was up 5.77 percent year-on-year at $97.03 billion during the period, the Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday.

October marked the ninth straight monthly increase in FDI, which rose 1.24 percent to $8.42 billion, compared with 4.88 percent in September and just 0.62 percent in August.