China’s Expanding Global Reach

In 2005, China’s investments in 26 countries totaled $21 billion. Twelve years later, China invested in 86 countries for a total $278.36 billion.

2017

$278.36 billion

New investment and construction

contracts each year,

in billions of dollars

Total new investment worldwide each year

2014

$177.92 billion

$2

4

6

8

10

2005

$21 billion

China National Petroleum Corp. invested $4.2 billion in PetroKazakhstan — a 67 percent stake in the company.

2005

KAZAKHSTAN

CHINA

2017

$6.3 billion in rail, property, gas and coal investments accounted for a little over half of China’s Australia portfolio.

CHINA

U.S.

China’s largest 2017

investment in the U.S. was HNA Group’s

$10 billion purchase of CIT Group’s aircraft leasing unit, building the world’s third-largest rental fleet.

AUSTRALIA

SWITZERLAND

ChemChina took over Swiss agribusiness Syngenta for $43 billion, China’s largest foreign investment so far.

2017

$278.36

billion

New investment and construction

contracts each year,

in billions of dollars

Total new investment worldwide each year

2014

$177.92 billion

$2

4

6

8

10

2005

$21 billion

China National Petroleum Corp. invested $4.2 billion in PetroKazakhstan — a 67 percent stake in the company.

2005

KAZAKHSTAN

CHINA

2017

ChemChina took over Swiss agribusiness Syngenta for $43 billion, China’s largest foreign investment so far.

SWITZERLAND

CHINA

U.S.

$6.3 billion in rail, property, gas and coal investments accounted for a little over half of China’s Australia portfolio.

China’s largest

investment in the U.S. was HNA Group’s $10 billion purchase of CIT Group’s aircraft leasing unit, building the world’s third-largest rental fleet.

AUSTRALIA

New investment and construction contracts each year,

in billions of dollars

$2

4

6

8

10

Total new investment worldwide each year

2017

$278.36 billion

2014

$177.92 billion

2005

$21 billion

2005

China National Petroleum Corp. invested $4.2 billion in

PetroKazakhstan — a 67 percent stake in the company.

KAZAKHSTAN

CHINA

2017

ChemChina took over Swiss agribusiness Syngenta for $43 billion, China’s largest foreign investment so far.

SWITZERLAND

CHINA

U.S.

China’s largest

investment in the U.S. was HNA Group’s $10 billion purchase of CIT Group’s aircraft leasing unit, building the world’s third-largest rental fleet.

$6.3 billion in rail, property, gas and coal investments accounted for a little over half of China’s Australia portfolio.

AUSTRALIA