China economic environment continue to lead in M&A and direct investment sector. On last Tuesday, the Ministry of the commerce revealed that China’s outbound direct investment amount to 882.78 billion yuan($134.22 billion) in the first three quarters of this year.

As a matter of fact, Chinese companies completed 521 overseas merger and acquisition projects, including 119 in the United States, during the first nine months of the 2016. The mergers and acquisitions has involved 18 industries in 67 different countries, with US, the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong as top three destinations for Chinese mainland investments.

A strong role into this special boost has been played by the “one belt one road” initiative, upon which Chinese companies invested $17.9 billion in 56 economic and trade cooperation zones in 20 countries along the Belt and Road during the same period, creating 163,000 jobs for local people

According to Ministry of Commerce private and non-State owned enterprises accounted for 86.6 percent ofChina's mergers and acquisitions activities betw en January and September.

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