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

Fan Ying

doi:10.2478/ijme-2014-0036

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

International Journal of Management and Economics

Volume 41 (2014): Issue 1 (March 2014)

By: Fan Ying

Open Access

|Oct 2014

Abstract

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.

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