On April 24th, He Yadong, spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, introduced the situation of China's foreign investment cooperation from January to March this year at a regular press conference. From January to March 2025, China's industry wide foreign direct investment will reach 40.9 billion US dollars, up 6.2% year on year (the same below), including foreign non-financial direct investment of 35.68 billion US dollars, up 4.4%, and non-financial direct investment of 8.87 billion US dollars, up 15.6%, in countries jointly building the "the Belt and Road". During an interview with reporters, Fu Yifu, a special researcher at Su Shang Bank, stated that in the first quarter, despite the complex international situation, the scale of China's outward non-financial direct investment still maintained stable growth. Among them, the co construction of the "the Belt and Road" countries plays an important role in promoting the growth of China's foreign investment, reflecting China's efforts in constantly promoting the optimization of the export product structure, encouraging enterprises to actively "go out" and other aspects, and actively explore emerging markets, combine China's own development with the co construction of the "the Belt and Road" countries and common development, on the basis of win-win cooperation, continue to explore new growth points for the global economy. In addition, He Yadong introduced that from January to March, China's foreign contracted engineering completed a turnover of 34.18 billion US dollars, an increase of 5.5%; The newly signed contract amount is 58.67 billion US dollars, an increase of 26%. Among them, the turnover of Chinese enterprises in the joint construction of the "the Belt and Road" national contracting projects reached US $27.52 billion, an increase of 4.1%; The newly signed contract amount is 47.14 billion US dollars, an increase of 16.3%. Professor Chen Jianwei from the National Institute of Opening up at the University of International Business and Economics told reporters that the rapid growth of newly signed contracts for foreign contracted projects is mainly due to the recovery of global infrastructure construction demand and the continuous promotion of strategic projects. Many countries jointly building the "the Belt and Road" have urgent needs for infrastructure upgrading and connectivity projects, providing Chinese enterprises with broad market space. In addition, the comprehensive competitiveness of Chinese enterprises in project execution capability, technological advantages, and financing has enabled them to obtain more orders in the global contract engineering market, which also reflects the firm pace of Chinese enterprises' deep participation in global economic governance and infrastructure interconnection. Looking ahead to the trend of China's outward foreign direct investment in the next stage, Chen Jianwei believes that it is expected that China's outward investment cooperation will continue to develop steadily and positively this year, and pay more attention to investment quality and efficiency. Specifically, while maintaining the advantages in traditional infrastructure, investment directions will be more focused on emerging industries and high-tech fields. Green economy, digital economy, advanced manufacturing, and service industry are expected to become new growth points for China's outbound investment this year. ”Chen Jianwei said. Fu Yifu stated that although there are still many uncertain factors in the international situation, in the long run, strengthening development cooperation between countries and regions is still the trend, and China's principle of opening up to the outside world has never changed. China's outward investment will continue to maintain a stable and positive trend in the future. Referring to how to promote high-quality development of foreign investment cooperation this year, Fu Yifu said that in specific practice, we should continue to strengthen cooperation with countries jointly building the "the Belt and Road", including infrastructure construction such as railways, roads and ports, as well as investment cooperation in manufacturing, finance, information technology, service outsourcing, etc; At the same time, we need to accelerate the construction of overseas economic and trade cooperation zones to create a better environment for Chinese enterprises to invest and cooperate in other countries; In addition, we should continuously improve the service system for foreign investment, guide enterprises to comply with international investment rules and standards, regulate business behavior, and actively build overseas supply guarantee systems for strategic resources such as oil and natural gas. (New Society)