The Chinese government says China's non-financial outbound direct investment in the first four months this year remained strong. The Ministry of Commerce says China's non-financial ODI totaled about 390 billion yuan from January to April in 2016. That's a 71.8 percent year-on-year increase.
 
Experts say the strong outbound investment benefited from China's "Belt and Road" initiative. Chinese enterprises invested about US4.9 billion in countries involved in the Belt and Road initiative, up 32 percent year on year.