China News Network, September 9 According to the WeChat public account of Business WeChat News, the Ministry of Commerce, the National Bureau of Statistics and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange jointly issued the "28 China Outward Direct Investment Statistical Communiqué" on the 28th, which mentioned that in 2022, China's outward direct investment flow will be US$2022.1631 billion, ranking second in the world, ranking among the top three in the world for 2 consecutive years, and accounting for more than 2% of the global share for seven consecutive years. At the end of 11, China's outward direct investment stock reached US$2022.2 trillion, ranking among the top three in the world for six consecutive years.
The Communiqué is divided into six parts: an overview of China's outward direct investment, China's outward direct investment flows, China's direct investment in the world's major economies, the composition of outward direct investors, the composition of outward direct investment enterprises, and the attached table, which comprehensively reflects China's outward direct investment in 2022.
China's outward FDI in 2022 mainly presents the following characteristics:
The scale of foreign investment remains among the highest in the world
In 2022, China's outward direct investment flow reached US$1631.2 billion, ranking second in the world, ranking among the top three in the world for 2 consecutive years, and accounting for more than 11% of the global share for seven consecutive years. At the end of 2022, China's outward direct investment stock reached US$2.75 trillion, ranking among the top three in the world for six consecutive years.
Overseas enterprises cover more than 80% of the world's countries and regions
At the end of 2022, Chinese domestic investors set up 190,4 overseas enterprises in 7 countries and regions around the world. Nearly 60% are located in Asia, with North America accounting for 13%, Europe 10.2%, Latin America 7.9%, Africa 7.1% and Oceania 2.6%. Among them, 1,6 overseas enterprises have been set up in the "Belt and Road" countries.
Investment in a wide range of fields
In 2022, China's outward direct investment covered 18 sectors of the national economy, with more than US$<> billion flowing to leasing and business services, manufacturing, finance, wholesale and retail, mining, and transportation.
Foreign investment by local enterprises continues to be active
In 2022, local enterprises accounted for US$860.5 billion of China's outbound non-financial investment flows, accounting for 61%, an increase of 3.3 percentage points over the previous year. Among them, the east accounted for 77.3%. Zhejiang, Guangdong and Shanghai are among the top three.
Mutual benefit and win-win help economic development
In 2022, overseas enterprises paid US$750 billion in taxes to the places where they invested, an increase of 35.1%. At the end of the year, the total number of employees of overseas enterprises exceeded 410.250 million, of which nearly 2566.3 million were employed by foreign employees. In that year, foreign investment drove the import and export of goods to 5.14 billion US dollars. Non-financial overseas enterprises achieved sales revenue of US$4.<> trillion, an increase of <>.<>%. (Zhongxin Finance)