In January of 2018, the incremental Chinese contractual outward investment of $2.8 billion was approved by Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, down 38% on a year-on-year basis; the actual outward investment reached $350 million, down 43.7% year on year. A completed turnover of foreign contracted projects reached $420 million. The accumulative number of laborers under foreign labor service and foreign contracted projects was 3,107, and the number of overseas laborers of all kinds at the end of the statistical period was 86,486.
