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The 21st century will most likely belong to China as the Chinese Century. But with a rapid increase in Chinese investment and African innovation, the 22nd century may see the dawn of the African Century. China’s investment in Africa will create an infrastructure for African culture and innovation to accelerate. Chinese investments and contracts in sub-Saharan Africa total $299 billion from 2005 to 2018, according to the China Investment Global Tracker, and in 2018, Chinese president Xi Jinping vowed to invest a further $60 billion into African nations. If the continent can successfully navigate the issues raised by Chinese neo-colonial ambitions—such as...

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT OUTBOUND INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS 2019

As more Chinese companies goes global, "quality" has replaced "cheap" as the new keyword for Chinese companies in the overseas market, according to a recent report released by global employment-oriented social networking platform Linkedin. The report is based on a survey of more than 600 marketing personnel from Chinese companies and 2,000 business-to-business (B2B) decision makers from 18 countries and regions. About 81 percent of the surveyed decision makers show interest in cooperating with Chinese companies, and 40 percent have experiences of working with Chinese companies. However, only 5 percent have established long-term partnership with Chinese companies. Vianne Cai, general...

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT OUTBOUND INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS 2019

Chinese financing in Latin America is changing. After becoming a major source of capital flows to Latin America and the Caribbean over the past 15 years, a more diverse range of investors has surfaced, interested in more than simply channeling resources towards infrastructure, governments and state companies. The profile of Chinese investment in the region tracks the evolution of China’s economy as it moves toward a higher reliance on services and domestic consumption.  Lending by the China Development Bank and China’s Eximbank was until recently directed mostly to infrastructure and the energy sector. In recent years, however, China’s development lending...

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT OUTBOUND INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS 2019

Chinese companies are accelerating investment in Vietnam – but some local businesses are voicing concerns. Foreign investment hit a four-year high of US$16.7 billion in the first five months of this year, up 69 per cent compared to the same period in 2018. Chinese investment made up 42.5 per cent of the total according to data released by the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment. If including Taiwan’s investment, Chinese investors poured nearly $7.7 billion in Vietnam, surpassing South Korea, Singapore and Japan to become the biggest foreign investor. In its recent report, the FIA...

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT OUTBOUND INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS 2019

Fidu Properties has reaffirmed that Chinese investments in the UAE's real estate sector are set to surge in the coming months, and will grow over 70 per cent during 2019, reinforcing the growth potential on offer in the country. Chinese investments have gone up 64 per cent between 2016 and 2017, and this trend has continued in 2018 and the first quarter of 2019. Currently, Chinese investors are among the top four nationalities who have invested in Dubai, according to official statistics. Investors from China accounted for Dh1.7 billion worth of investments in Dubai in the first nine months of...

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT OUTBOUND INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS 2019

High-level trade negotiations between the U.S. and China broke down after President Donald Trump turned up the rhetoric against Beijing. Beijing said that further talks can’t proceed unless Washington adjusts its “wrong actions” but Trump still predicted that a deal could be reached “fast.” However, Tan Min Lan, Asia-Pacific head of chief investment office at UBS Global Wealth Management, predicted that any deal between the U.S. and China will likely only come “just before 2020.” With both the S.and China avoiding any severe economic downturn so far, there’s little incentive for the two countries to strike a trade deal quickly, according to UBS...

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT OUTBOUND INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS 2019

Foreign minister A K Abdul Momen on urged Hong Kong-based Chinese manufacturers to invest here terming Bangladesh as an unexplored gold mine that offers cheap labour and low energy cost to the foreign investors.‘Explore Bangladesh potentials, if you make money come here (make investment) earlier than others,’ he told a seminar titled ‘Trade and Investment Opportunities in Bangladesh’ at foreign ministry in the capital.Besides cheap labour, Momen said Bangladesh had a vast local market with 160 million of people to consume various goods. ‘You will make money, in return Bangladesh will get more employment opportunities.. it will be a win...

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT OUTBOUND INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS 2019

Ethiopia's mining sector has recently emerged as one of the major priority investment areas among potential Chinese investors amid the Ethiopian government's efforts to attract foreign firms in the extraction of the country's abundant mineral resources, an Ethiopian official said. In an exclusive interview with Xinhua, Ethiopia's State Minister of Mining and Petroleum, Assefa Kumsa, said that as the Ethiopian government invites experienced foreign companies to invest in the mining sector, a growing number of Chinese investors seek to penetrate in the exploration and production of the East African country's untapped mineral and natural-gas resources. "As Chinese firms' engagement in...

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT OUTBOUND INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS 2019