From January to July, my country's investment in countries along the "Belt and Road" maintains growth

　　Chinanews.com, August 19th. On the 19th, the Ministry of Commerce held a regular press conference. The spokesperson Gao Feng reported that in the first seven months of this year, my country's investment in countries along the “Belt and Road” has maintained growth, and the contracted engineering market has been stable.

　　From January to July, my country's foreign non-financial direct investment was 40.52 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 4% (equivalent to 62.81 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 4.2% year-on-year).

The turnover of foreign contracted projects was 508.13 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.4% (equivalent to 78.51 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 12.3%); the newly signed contract value was 797.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 6.8% (equivalent to US$123.25 billion, a year-on-year increase of 1.2%) ).

184,000 laborers of various types were dispatched for foreign labor service cooperation, and 602,000 laborers of various types were dispatched abroad at the end of July.

　　Gao Feng said that in the first seven months of this year, my country's foreign investment cooperation mainly showed the following characteristics:

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From January to July, China’s non-financial direct investment in countries along the “Belt and Road” was US$11.29 billion, a year-on-year increase of 9.9%, accounting for 18% of the total in the same period, an increase of 1 percentage point from the same period last year.

The contract value of newly signed projects in the countries along the route was US$64.42 billion, and the completed turnover was US$45.26 billion, accounting for 52.3% and 57.6% of the total in the same period.

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From January to July, the flow to the information transmission/software and information technology service industry was US$4.81 billion, a year-on-year increase of 32.9%.

Investment in fields such as scientific research and technical services, manufacturing, transportation, and resident services is also on the rise.

Foreign non-financial direct investment by local enterprises was US$48.46 billion, a year-on-year increase of 10.6%, accounting for 77.2% of the total foreign investment in the same period.

Among them, the foreign investment of relevant provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt was US$23.82 billion, an increase of 18.8% year-on-year, accounting for 37.9% of the country's foreign investment.

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. From January to July, the newly signed contracts of foreign contracted projects were mainly concentrated in the fields of transportation, power engineering construction and general construction, accounting for more than 60%. There were 453 projects with newly signed contracts of more than US$50 million, an increase of 32 over the same period last year, totaling US$104.86 billion, accounting for 85.1% of the total value of newly signed contracts.