Chinese investors in 2019 established about 44,000 enterprises in over 80% of countries and regions across the world, state-run media said on Wednesday.
According to Global Times, the country's outbound foreign direct investment (ODI) totaled $136.9 billion in 2019, down 4.3% from the previous year, but Beijing still remained second in the world in term of foreign investment after Japan.
By the end of last year, China's cumulative ODI had reached $2.2 trillion, third in the world following the US and the Netherlands, the daily said, citing Commerce Ministry, National Bureau of Statistics, and State Administration of Foreign Exchange data.