The Greek government is taking to China its plan to raise 50 billion euros ($64.74 billion) by privatizing some of its assets in a bid to attract "long-term investors", a Greek diplomat said on Thursday.
Chinese investment in Germany will keep on growing as domestic companies seek to acquire advanced technologies and enhance their brand awareness.
Cnrun Investment Holdings Co has become the largest shareholder of Vatukoula Gold Mines Plc after buying 6.6 million pounds ($10.62 million) worth of Vatukoula's shares.
The China Investment Corporation, China's sovereign wealth fund, announced Thursday that its subsidiary will purchase a 10-percent stake in Heathrow Airport.
The United States still welcomes Chinese investment that creates jobs in the country, a top US diplomat said on Tuesday.
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China has become Malaysia's third-largest source of tourists, following Indonesia and Singapore. In the first half of the year, 758,300 Chinese tourists visited Malaysia, up 34 percent year-on-year, according to the Malaysia Tourism Bureau. While private companies are trying to grasp investment opportunities in Malaysia, China's State-owned enterprises have tapped into the market, which is China's largest trading partner among members of the ASEAN.
Though Chinese private companies' overseas activities are smaller in scale when compared with their State-owned counterparts, they have a more creative and diversified approach.
In North America and Europe, average people never imagine that one day most of them could be working for Chinese companies in their own countries. They had better be prepared.
Private enterprises in China are playing an increasingly important role and fast catching up with their State-owned peers in terms of global expansion.
Private entrepreneurs are a relatively new breed in China and perhaps the ones who are most symbolic of the nation's current economic resurgence.
The private company HOdo Group Co Ltd, a textile and garment company in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, is looking to expand its presence in Sihanoukville, a province in southern Cambodia.