01/03/2015
Ranked tenth in the world, leaders of Arab States and the Middle East
$ 19.5 billion, the size of Chinese investment in the kingdom
Saudi Arabia came in tenth position as the largest recipient of Chinese investment between the countries of the world during the past decade, about $ 19.5 billion, topped with Arab countries and the Middle East.
According to figures obtained by the "economic" from the Chinese trade mission in Geneva, on its annual report on China's investment in the world, due out in early (April), the total Chinese investment in Saudi Arabia amounted to $ 19.5 billion since (January) in2005 to 31 (December) 2014.
With respect to the previous year 2014, China's investment in Saudi Arabia has risen to $ 1.1 billion, from about $ 850 million in 2013.
In 2012, China's investment flow arrived in Saudi Arabia to $ 1.5 billion in size, is that the year 2007 saw a record high after reaching $ 5.7 billion, and in 2009 ($ 2.9 billion), in 2010 ($ 1.8 billion) and in 2011 (3.2billion dollars).
The last ten years distributed investments by $ 5.2 billion in minerals, and 1.9 billion in the transport sector, and 2.4 billion in the real estate field, and 1.5 in the field of agriculture, and 6.8 billion in the energy and power sector, and 1.8 billion inother fields.
Algeria came after Saudi Arabia in terms of total Chinese investment from 2005 to the end of the volume reached $ 15.4 billion in 2014 (US $ 900 million in 2014), then the UAE total year amounted to $ 9.5 billion (US $ 400 million in 2014), and Turkey at the centerfourth the size of $ 9.1 billion (US $ 450 million in 2014), then Egypt with a total investment amounted to $ 8.4 billion (zero from investments in 2014 compared to 3.6 billion in 2013), and Sudan total volume reached $ 4.2 billion (zero investments in 2014 and 2013, and 1.2 billion in 2010).
Qatar came in seventh place total volume reached $ 3.2 billion, then a row all of Libya $ 3.0 billion, Kuwait $ 2.1 billion, and Yemen 1.2 billion dollars, and Mauritania $ 1.1 billion, and Morocco $ 500 million, Oman $ 310 million, Tunisia 110 milliondollars.
In total, Chinese investment since January recorded (January 2005), more than 650 active investment value of each one of them $ 100 million or more, and this figure was born about 695 billion dollars of Chinese investment in the world, knowing that he was excluded bondsof these transactions.
Ironically, it contained the report, the United States, the first economy in the world, was the largest recipient of Chinese investment in 2014 for the third year in a row, rising Chinese investment flows to the United States to 16.98 billion dollars in 2014, from 15.64 billion in 2013, whilein 2012 reached 9.34 billion to flow.
During the period of January (January 2005) until 31 December (December) 2014, Chinese investment reached in the United States in size reached $ 78 billion, followed by Australia's $ 62.9 billion, and Canada, $ 41.1 billion, Brazil $ 31.4 billion, Indonesia $ 30.7 billionand Britain in sixth place, $ 23.6 billion, Kazakhstan $ 23.5 billion, and Russia $ 20.9 billion, Nigeria $ 20.7 billion, and Saudi Arabia in tenth place $ 19.5 billion, and Pakistan $ 17.8 billion, Venezuela $ 17.5 billion, Iran $ 17.2 billion, and Peru 16.5 billiondollars, and Malaysia $ 15.7 billion, and Argentina in sixteenth place $ 14.8 billion.
