China outbound direct investment rises 16.3%

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The Chinese mainland made around 589.2 billion yuan (about 95.21 billion U.S. dollars) in non-financial investment in overseas markets in the first ten months of 2015, up 16.3 percent year on year, the latest data showed on Monday.

Outbound direct investment (ODI) in the period covered 5,553 overseas-based companies in 152 countries and regions, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said.

The number of foreign-contracted projects worth more than 100 million U.S. dollars increased to 307, up by 39 from last year, with the total contract amount reaching 108.3 billion U.S. dollars in the Jan.-Oct. period, said Jiang Wenbin, deputy head of the MOC Department of Outward Investment and Economic Cooperation.

The projects covered a wide range of fields including transportation, housing construction, electric power engineering, telecommunication and petrochemical industries, Jiang said.

During the period, Chinese investors spent around 9.94 billion U.S. dollars in developing manufacturing industries in overseas markets, up 82.8 percent year on year, the data showed.

The manufacturing investment mainly went to automobiles, medicine, computers, communication devices, rubber and plastic products, Jiang said.

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