Open AccessAn Analysis of China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment to the EU: Features and Problems
Author(s) -
Ying Fan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of management and economics/boletín informativo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2299-9701
DOI - 10.2478/ijme-2014-0036
Subject(s) - china , foreign direct investment , foreign capital , investment (military) , european union , international trade , international economics , market economy , capital (architecture) , chinese economy , economics , business , scale (ratio) , economic system , economy , political science , macroeconomics , history , archaeology , politics , law , physics , quantum mechanics
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