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Assistant Minister of Commerce Zhang Xiangchen said that China will continue to increase the flexibility of ODI procedures to allow domestic companies to assume more control of their overseas business.
China's non-financial ODI totaled $74.96 billion in the first three quarters of this year, up 21.6 percent from the same period a year earlier, fresh evidence that China's "going global" strategy is still expanding.
"International markets — especially Latin America, Africa, Southeast Asia and East Europe — still need many products such as machinery
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"China's ODI, therefore, is essential for them to gain funds
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China's ODI reached a record high of $108 billion in 2013, making it the world's third-largest investor for a second consecutive year.
The government is working with other countries to enhance the status of investment protection agreements, as well as simplifying its own ODI approval procedures.
For example, as of Oct 6
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"Only projects in sensitive countries or regions, as well as in sensitive industries, will require approval by the Ministry of Commerce," said Chen Lin, commercial counselor in the ministry's department of outward investment and economic cooperation.
"Sensitive" countries or regions are those that have no diplomatic ties with China or those under United Nations sanctions. Other overseas investment projects need only be registered with the ministry.
Last year, the ministry approved 6
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The value of overseas assets and property owned by 25,000 Chinese companies, including 40 percent of private companies, amounts to $3 trillion in 166 countries and regions. The companies have more than 1 million employees at different locations throughout the world.
Wang Zhile
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"Also, a slow world economic recovery is driving many economies to seek foreign investment to boost economic growth and employment," said Wang.
China is expected to attract about $120 billion of foreign direct investment in 2014, and China's ODI may outpace FDI inflows in 2015
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DAMASCUS, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- The intensity of clashes between the rebels and the Syrian government troops have intensified over the past couple of days and is expected to continue in the coming days following announcement of the date of the Geneva II conference on Syrian crisis, experts said.
The clashes have started to intensify on Saturday when the rebels tried to break the government troops' siege on the Eastern al-Ghouta countryside of the capital Damascus.
The rebels have also unleashed their counteroffensive to cover for their losses in northern Damascus, namely in the strategic al- Qalamoun Mountains, which connects Damascus with central and coastal Syrian provinces. The mountains are also located on the borders with neighboring Lebanon.
Syria's mainstream media said the army managed to repel the rebels attack and eliminated scores the rebels and their weaponries.
The local al-Watan newspaper said Monday that more than 100 rebel fighters had been killed over the past two days in al-Ghouta.
The battles in the south and east of Damascus have been coupled with others in the northern rim of the capital
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The victory in al-Qalamoun is crucial to the Syrian troops as ridding the rebel-held area would secure the road that connects Damascus in the south with central and northern Syria, and cut off the rebels' supply line from neighboring Lebanon.
Aside from the clashes in southern and northern Damascus, the Syrian troops have also unleashed a wide-scale operation in the southeastern countryside of Aleppo, dislodging rebels from a string of towns in a bid to push further into the rebel-held parts of the city.
The official SANA news agency said at least 11 people were killed on Monday in a mortar attack that struck the al-Jamilieh neighborhood in Aleppo, adding that 20 others were wounded.
SANA said Monday's attack was carried out by "terrorists
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In Damascus, two people were injured by a fresh mortar attack against three neighborhoods.
Meanwhile, the army killed and wounded more than 50 rebels in the southern province of Daraa, said SANA, adding that the army also killed 12 rebels in the eastern countryside of Damascus.
Maher Morhej, the head of the Youth Party
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The situation on ground would set the course and the results of Geneva II conference, he said.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday announced that he wi.