Statistics of Outward Investment and Economic Cooperation of Guangdong Province (Jan.-July. 2017)

　　In the first seven months of 2017, the incremental Chinese contractual outward investment of $8.19 billion was approved by Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, down 48.8% on a year-on-year basis; the actual outward investment reached $5.09 billion, down 64.4% year on year. A completed turnover of foreign contracted projects reached $8.49 billion. The accumulative number of laborers under foreign labor service and foreign contracted projects was 24, 387, and the number of overseas laborers of all kinds at the end of the statistical period was 84, 243.