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This research paper reviews the development of China's outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) to the European Union since the global fnancial crisis, summarizes the apparent characteristics and causes behind that development, provides an in-depth analysis of the problems and deep rooted risks in such investment, and predicts that with China's economy being stronger the scale of China's OFDI will be greater in the coming period. However, since Chinese enterprises are really newcomers of OFDI, they are far from being mature and successful players, which requires not only capital, but also an organic combination of intangible elements regarding economy, society, and culture etc.

An Analysis of China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment to the EU: Features and Problems

School of the International Economy, China Foreign Afairs University (CFAU), China

International Journal of Management and Economics

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This research paper reviews the development of China's outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) to the European Union since the global fnancial crisis,...

An Analysis of China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment to the EU: Features and Problems

Published Online: Oct 17, 2014

Page range: 45 - 59

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2014-0036

Keywords
China, OFDI, European Union, cause analysis

© 2014 Fan Ying

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

An Analysis of China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment to the EU: Features and Problems

Published Online: Oct 17, 2014

Page range: 45 - 59

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2014-0036

KeywordsChina, OFDI, European Union, cause analysis

© 2014 Fan Ying

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
China, OFDI, European Union, cause analysis