Department of Commerce: As of the end of last year, about 286,000 companies in China have invested in overseas

Liu Dianxun, Director of the Investment Promotion Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce (picture source: Guoxin.com)

Cover news reporter Teng Yan

On August 30, the National New Office held a press conference on the 22nd China International Investment and Trade Fair. Liu Dianxun, director of the Investment Promotion Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce, introduced that as of the end of last year, about 28,600 companies in China invested overseas.

Liu Dianxun said that China's foreign investment has continued to grow in recent years. From January to July this year, my country's foreign non-financial direct investment was US $ 65.06 billion, an increase of 3.6%year-on-year. Non -financial direct investment in countries along the “Belt and Road” reached 11.87 billion US dollars, a year -on -year increase of 5.1%. The "Belt and Road" investment accounted for 18.2%of the same period.

Liu Dianxun revealed that as of the end of last year, approximately 28,600 companies in China have invested in overseas, and 45,600 companies have been established overseas, distributed in 190 countries and regions around the world. The total assets of foreign companies at the end of the year exceeded 8 trillion US dollars. "It should be said that China's foreign investment is still under development. China's foreign investment has not only contributed the economic development of the host country, but also made positive efforts to the recovery of the world economy."

Liu Dianxun said that in the next step, in terms of promoting foreign investment, the Ministry of Commerce first continued to promote "government guidance, enterprise -led, and market -oriented operation" to promote my country's enterprises to "go global" and carry out foreign investment cooperation. The second is to support enterprises to actively participate in the construction of the “Belt and Road” in accordance with the principles of “discussion and co -construction and sharing”, and promote high -quality co -construction of “Belt and Road” to continuously go into deep implementation. The third is to guide enterprises to actively participate in international economic competition and cooperation. According to the actual needs of the host country, foreign investment cooperation in the fields of green development and digital economy has been strengthened to promote mutual benefit and win -win results and achieve common development.

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