The source used transaction-based data to calculate FDI values. These figures vary from official Chinese outbound FDI data, but might be more representative for actual investment flows.
In 2022, about *** billion euros worth of foreign direct investment (FDI) transactions from China were completed in the ** EU countries and the United Kingdom. Only eight percent of the Chinese direct investment that year was state-owned investment, significantly decreased from ** percent in 2017.
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