{"id":408330,"date":"2026-02-05T00:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408330\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:24:11","slug":"china-outbound-investment-in-2025-hit-highest-level-since-2018-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408330\/","title":{"rendered":"China outbound investment in 2025 hit highest level since 2018: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/business-trends\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business trends<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Energy, data centers and resources drive overseas spending in Asia, Africa<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20260204 Chinese outbound investment\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">An ariel view of the\u00a0Simandou iron ore mine, operated\u00a0by Rio Tinto and its partners\u00a0in Guinea. Chinese companies have also begun tapping the\u00a0world&#8217;s largest untapped high-grade iron ore deposit in the West African country. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>PAK YIU<\/p>\n<p>February 4, 2026 23:00 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">NEW YORK &#8212; Chinese investment overseas jumped 18% in 2025, driven by energy and basic materials, as the world&#8217;s second-largest economy accelerated a shift away from Western nations and toward Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business trends Energy, data centers and resources drive overseas spending in Asia, Africa An ariel view of the\u00a0Simandou&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[151905,2325,84,891,1294,136281,23808,465,30774,6715,1058,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-408330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-151905","tag-2325","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-highest","tag-hit","tag-investment","tag-level","tag-outbound","tag-report","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}