From January to May 2022, the non-financial direct investment of Chinese enterprises in the countries along the “Belt and Road” reached 52.71 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.4% (equivalent to 8.19 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 10.2%), accounting for 18.4% of the total amount in the same period, compared with the same period last year. In the same period in 2021, it increased by 1.2 percentage points, mainly investing in countries such as Singapore, Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Serbia.

In terms of foreign contracted projects, Chinese enterprises newly signed 1,840 foreign contracted engineering project contracts in countries along the “Belt and Road”, with a newly signed contract value of 244.58 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 18.8% (equivalent to 38 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 18.3%), accounting for During the same period, my country’s foreign contracted projects accounted for 48.2% of the newly signed contract value; the completed turnover was 183.76 billion yuan, down 8% year-on-year (equivalent to US$28.55 billion, down 7.3% year-on-year), accounting for 53.4% of the total in the same period.