In 2017, non-financial foreign direct investment (FDI) by Chinese companies totaled $120.08 billion, down 29.4 percent year on year, as announced by China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC).
In the given year, contracts for foreign projects signed by Chinese companies were worth a total value of $265.28 billion, up 8.7 percent year on year.
Meanwhile, 2017, Chinese companies made new investments worth a total of $14.36 billion in the 59 countries of the One Belt, One Road area, accounting for 12.0 percent of the total investment in the given period, increasing by 3.5 percentage points compared to the same period last year.
