Chinese enterprises made non-financial direct investments of US$15.04 billion in 56 countries along the Belt and Road in 2019, going down 3.8% year on year, taking up 13.6% of the total over the same period of time. The investment mainly flew to Singapore, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia, UAE, Cambodia and Kazakhstan.

Regarding the overseas contracted projects, the number of the newly-signed contracts by Chinese enterprises in 62 countries along the Belt and Road amounted to 6,944 with a total contract value of US$154.89 billion, taking up 59.5% of China’s total contract value of the newly-signed overseas contracted projects over the same period of time, going down 23.1% year on year. The turnover reached US$ 97.98 billion, taking up 56.7% of the total, up 9.7% year on year.