China's outward non-financial direct investment up 11.2% year-on-year in January-November: Chinese report

At a regular press conference held on the 19th, the Ministry of Commerce of China announced that China's outward non-financial direct investment from January to November this year was $128.63 billion (about 20.2 trillion yen), up 11% from the same period last year.
Of this, non-financial direct investment by Chinese companies in Belt and Road co-construction countries increased by 5.1% to $30.17 billion (approximately 4.7 trillion yen).
During the same period, China's overseas contract construction sales increased 3.4% to $140.23 billion (approximately 22 trillion yen), and the value of new contracts increased 11.9% to $198.79 billion (approximately 31.2 trillion yen).
Among these, sales of contracted construction works by Chinese companies in countries co-constructing the "One Belt, One Road" increased by 2.5% to 116.14 billion dollars (about 18.2 trillion yen), and the amount of new contracts was
increased 11.8% to 167.95 billion dollars (approximately 26.4 trillion yen).