The Ministry Of Commerce, The National Bureau Of Statistics And The State Administration Of Foreign Exchange Jointly Released ——The 2022 Statistical Bulletin On China'S Overseas Direct Investment

On September 28, the Ministry of Commerce, the National Bureau of Statistics and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange jointly released the "2022 Statistical Bulletin on China's Overseas Direct Investment" (hereinafter referred to as the "Bulletin").

The "Communique" is divided into six parts: a summary of China's foreign direct investment, China's foreign direct investment flow stock, China's direct investment in the world's major economies, the composition of foreign direct investors, the composition of foreign direct investment enterprises, and appendix, comprehensively reflecting China's 2022 Foreign direct investment situation.

China’s overseas direct investment in 2022 will mainly present the following characteristics:

First, the scale of foreign investment remains at the forefront of the world. In 2022, China's foreign direct investment flow was US$163.12 billion, ranking second in the world, ranking among the top three in the world for 11 consecutive years, and accounting for more than 10% of the global share for seven consecutive years. By the end of 2022, China's foreign direct investment stock reached US$2.75 trillion, ranking among the top three in the world for six consecutive years.

Second, overseas companies cover more than 80% of the countries and regions in the world. By the end of 2022, Chinese domestic investors had established a total of 47,000 overseas companies in 190 countries and regions around the world. Nearly 60% are distributed in Asia, North America accounts for 13%, Europe 10.2%, Latin America 7.9%, Africa 7.1%, and Oceania 2.6%. Among them, 16,000 overseas companies have been established in countries jointly building the “Belt and Road”.

Third, the investment fields are wide. In 2022, China's foreign direct investment covers 18 major industry categories of the national economy, of which investment in leasing and business services, manufacturing, finance, wholesale and retail, mining, transportation and other fields exceeds 10 billion US dollars.

Fourth, local enterprises’ foreign investment continues to be active. Among China's external non-financial investment flows in 2022, local enterprises accounted for US$86.05 billion, accounting for 61%, an increase of 3.3 percentage points from the previous year. Among them, the eastern part accounts for 77.3%. Zhejiang, Guangdong and Shanghai rank among the top three.

Fifth, mutual benefit and win-win help economic development. In 2022, overseas companies will pay US$75 billion in taxes to the places where they invest, an increase of 35.1%. At the end of the year, the total number of employees in overseas enterprises exceeded 4.1 million, of which nearly 2.5 million were foreign employees. In that year, foreign investment drove the import and export of goods to US$256.6 billion. Non-financial overseas companies achieved sales revenue of US$3.5 trillion, an increase of 14.4%.