China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Investment Report 2023 H1 – Green Finance & Development Center
Date of Publication
1-1-2023 12:00 AM
Security Theme
State Stability and Infrastructure
Keywords
China, BRI, energy, investment, engagement, mining, Bolivia, Critical Infrastructure
Description
In April 2023, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) released new BRI engagement statistics covering the period of January to March 2023. According to these data, Chinese enterprises invested about 5.76 billion in non-financial direct investments in countries “along the Belt and Road” in the first quarter of 2023 (a year-on-year increase of 9.5%). For this report, the definition of BRI countries includes 148 countries that had signed a cooperation agreement with China to work under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative by June 2023. We base our data on the China Global Investment Tracker and our own data research at the Green Finance & Development Center affiliated with FISF Fudan University, Shanghai. The data mostly includes deals with a size of over USD100 million and we count BRI engagements as those in countries that had an MoU with China to cooperate under the BRI (thus, if the Syrian Republic signed a BRI MoU in 2022, we also count prior investments into Syria as BRI investments). As with most data, they tend to be imperfect and need regular updating.
China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Investment Report 2023 H1 – Green Finance & Development Center
In April 2023, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) released new BRI engagement statistics covering the period of January to March 2023. According to these data, Chinese enterprises invested about 5.76 billion in non-financial direct investments in countries “along the Belt and Road” in the first quarter of 2023 (a year-on-year increase of 9.5%). For this report, the definition of BRI countries includes 148 countries that had signed a cooperation agreement with China to work under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative by June 2023. We base our data on the China Global Investment Tracker and our own data research at the Green Finance & Development Center affiliated with FISF Fudan University, Shanghai. The data mostly includes deals with a size of over USD100 million and we count BRI engagements as those in countries that had an MoU with China to cooperate under the BRI (thus, if the Syrian Republic signed a BRI MoU in 2022, we also count prior investments into Syria as BRI investments). As with most data, they tend to be imperfect and need regular updating.