China Global Investment Tracker
Editor’s note: The value of China’s overseas investment and construction combined since 2005 is approaching $2.4 trillion. In 2023, investment finally began to rebound from Covid and zero-Covid while construction lagged, at least for the moment. Transport eclipsed energy to become the biggest area for investment. The US, EU, and others continue to be hesitant concerning China’s purchases, and Indonesia led all recipients. In construction, Saudi Arabia led.
The China Global Investment Tracker is the only comprehensive public data set covering the country’s outbound investment and construction, which are documented both separately and together. It includes 4300 large transactions across metals, real estate, agriculture, technology, and other sectors (plus 370 troubled transactions). The full set, with the amount, Chinese parent company, host country, and sector, is available for public use with the proper citation. The tracker is published by the American Enterprise Institute.
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THE CHINA GLOBAL INVESTMENT TRACKER IS PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE AND THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION.
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