Direct Chinese investment in foreign countries for 8 months. increased by 18.2%

Almaty. September 17. Silkroadnews - In January-August this year, the volume of direct investments from China aimed at non-financial sectors of foreign economies amounted to 473.43 billion yuan ($73.9 billion), an increase by 18.2% compared with the same period last year, reports Xinhua News Agency.
Ministry of Commerce data show that in the first eight months of this year, Chinese investors have direct investments in 4862 companies in 150 countries and regions worldwide. In August, the volume of direct Chinese investment in foreign countries amounted to $13.5 billion (an increase by 7%). At the end of August, the total volume of direct non-financial investment of China to foreign countries reached 5.05 trillion yuan.
According to the official representative of the Ministry of Commerce Shen Danyang, in January-August China invested more than $100 million to 42 countries and regions, more than $1 billion - in eight countries and regions, including Chinese Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands, the United States, Singapore, Australia and others.
Direct investment of Chinese enterprises, totaling $10.73 billion were sent to 48 countries along the "belt and ways", including Singapore, Kazakhstan, Laos, Indonesia, Russia and Thailand.
From January to August, China executed overseas construction contracts in the amount of 545.37 billion yuan, 9.3% more than last year. New contracts were signed in the amount of 768.81 billion yuan, an increase by 27.6%.
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