In 2023, China's inward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows from countries that were participating in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) reached 18.26 billion U.S. dollars. This was much less than China's outward FDI flows into countries participating in the BRI which amounted to 40.71 billion U.S. dollars that year.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows from countries along the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) into China from 2013 to 2023
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* Countries along the BRI refers to a selection of main BRI participating countries used in official statistics in China until 2021. This selection did not include all countries participating in the BRI (around 142 in 2021), but only a selection of participating countries which were located along major trade routes of the BRI (63 in 2021).
** All BRI participating countries refers to all countries that had signed the Memorandum of Understanding of the BRI in that specific year. Since 2022, official Chinese statistics on BRI countries commonly refer to this broader term of BRI countries. As of December 2023, around 150 countries had signed the BRI MoU.
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MOFCOM China. (September 14, 2024). Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows from countries along the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) into China from 2013 to 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 08, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1346776/china-inward-fdi-flows-from-bri-countries/
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