Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment Data

Hi!

Since my first post here was a request if someone knew how to access Chinese OFDI Data sorted by country which some researchers frequently seem to use, I can now finally share where exactly the data comes from and hope that I thereby maybe save another poor soul from spending hours to find it.

Unsurprisingly, you have to search in Chinese to find the data:

XX 年度中国对外直接投资统计公报 (XX for the year you are searching)

sample: http://images.mofcom.gov.cn/hzs/201810/20181029160118046.pdf

Hope this helps and have fun!