China News Service, Beijing, September 16 (Reporter Li Xiaoyu) Chinese officials released statistics on the 16th showing that China's foreign direct investment in 2019 was US$136.91 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 4.3%. The scale of traffic was second only to Japan and ranked second in the world.

　　According to the "Statistical Bulletin of China's Outward Direct Investment 2019" released by the Ministry of Commerce, the National Bureau of Statistics and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on the same day, China's outward direct investment stock reached US$2.2 trillion at the end of 2019, second to the United States (US$7.7 trillion) and the Netherlands. (2.6 trillion US dollars), ranking third in the world.

　　In 2019, China's outbound investment flow accounted for 10.4% of the global total, more than 10% for 4 consecutive years; the stock accounted for 6.4%, the same as the previous year.

From the perspective of two-way investment, the scale of China's foreign direct investment in 2019 was 3.1% lower than that of foreign investment.

　　As of the end of 2019, China's foreign direct investment enterprises have reached 44,000, covering 188 countries and regions, and more than 80% of the countries (regions) in the world have Chinese investment.

At the end of the year, the total assets of Chinese overseas enterprises reached 7.2 trillion US dollars.

Countries along the “Belt and Road” accounted for 13.7% of China’s outbound investment flows that year.

　　China's foreign investment is mainly concentrated in the service industry.

The communiqué shows that at the end of 2019, 80% of China's foreign direct investment stock was concentrated in the service industry, mainly in leasing and business services, wholesale and retail, finance, information transmission/software and information technology services, real estate, transportation/warehousing and other fields.

　　According to the communiqué, in 2019, overseas Chinese companies are operating well, and more than 70% of companies are profitable or flat.

Foreign investment has driven exports of US$116.7 billion, accounting for 4.7% of China’s total export value of goods.

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