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China’s Outward Investment and Cooperation in January-July 2019

By MOFCOM Department of Outward Investment and Economic Cooperation

In January-July 2019, Chinese domestic investors made non-financial directinvestment in 4088 overseas enterprises in 153 countries and regions, with anaccumulative investment of 432.92 billion yuan, up 3.3% year on year. Theoutward direct investment in July reached 68.06 billion yuan, up 25.5% year onyear. In January-July 2019, the turnover of the accomplished contractualprojects overseas amounted to 549.13 billion yuan, up 2% year on year and thetotal contractual value of the newly-signed projects was 820.1 billion yuan, up1.9% year on year. The number of all kinds of laborers dispatched overseas forcooperation projects reached 265,000, almost the same as that of the sameperiod of last year. At the end of July, the number of all kinds of laborersoverseas was 972,000.


In January-July 2019, the outward investment and cooperation moved aheadstably, mainly presenting the following features:

First, investment and cooperation with countries along the Belt and Road routeswere steadily advanced. In January-July, Chinese enterprises made additionalinvestment of US$7.97 billion in 52 countries along the Belt and Road routes,accounting for 12.5% of the total amount of the same period. There were 36mergers with countries along the Belt and Road routes, with an investmentvolume of US$1.38 billion. The contractual value of the newly-signed projectsin the countries along the Belt and Road routes was US$72.26 billion,accounting for 59.9% of the total value of the same period; the turnover of theaccomplished projects was US$ 44.5 billion, taking up 55.1% of the total amountof the same period.

Second, the structure of outward investment continued to be diversified. InJanuary-July, outward investment mainly flew to leasing and commercial serviceindustry, manufacturing industry, wholesale and retail industry and miningindustry, taking up 30.7%, 18%, 10.1%, and 8.1% respectively. The outwarddirect investment flowing to the manufacturing industry and the informationtransmission/software and information technology services industry increased by11.4% and 24.1%. There was no new outward investment project in the real estateindustry, and sports and entertainment industry.

Third, there were many big contractual projects overseas, mainly ininfrastructure construction, driving local development and realizing mutualbenefits and win-win results. In January-July, there were 436 new outwardcontractual projects reaching the contractual value of over US$50 million,increasing by 18 over the same period of time last year and accounting for83.5% of the total value of the newly signed contracts. Among the outwardcontracted projects undertaken by Chinese enterprises, the contractual value ofinfrastructure construction projects was US$97.72 billion, accounting for 81%of the total value of the newly signed contracts. By the end of July, China’soutward project enterprises have created 812,000 jobs for project countries.

In January-July, the relevant departments handled 2960 newly established andM&A outward investment enterprises, and China’s contractual investmentreached US$62.05 billion. Among these, there were 2948 newly established andM&A non-financial outward investment enterprises, and China’s contractualinvestment reached US$60.88 billion. There were 12 newly established andM&A financial outward investment enterprises and China’s contractualinvestment reached US$1.17 billion. The relevant departments handled 740capital increasing outward investment enterprises, and China’s contractual investmentreached US$16.24 billion. Among these, there were 730 capital increasingnon-financial outward investment enterprises, and China’s contractualinvestment reached US$14.44 billion. There were 10 capital increasing financialoutward investment enterprises, and China’s contractual investment reachedUS$1.8 billion.