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China's outbound investment totals $183.97B
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-09-08 21:03 BEIJING: Chinese overseas direct investment (ODI) added up to $183.97 billion by the end of last year, said a report jointly issued by the Ministry of Commerce, the National Bureau of Statistics and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange Tuesday. The ODI came from more than 8,500 domestic investors and their overseas corporate assets topped $1 trillion.
Chinese overseas enterprises employed about 1.03 million people, including 455,000 overseas employees. Among Chinese outbound investors, 50.2 percent were limited companies, 16.1 percent were state-owned enterprises -- down 3.6 percentage points from the previous year, and 9.4 percent were private companies. Chinese investors had set up about 12,000 enterprises overseas in 174 countries or regions. About 71 percent of the enterprises were in Asia and Europe. |