BEIJING, Apr. 18 (Xinhua) -- China’s non-financial outbound direct investment (ODI) in 52 countries along the Belt and Road routes totaled 3.61 billion U.S. dollars in the first quarter of the year, up 22.4 percent year on year, accounting for 14.2 percent of the country's ODI on a global scale in the period, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
In the first quarter, China saw 158 foreign contracted projects each with a contract value of more than 50 million U.S. dollars, totaling 37.42 billion U.S. dollars. The foreign contracted projects drove the country’s exports of goods by 3.94 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 12.9 percent year on year. (Edited by Hu Pingchao, hupingchao@xinhua.org)
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