The American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation have joined forces to create the China Global Investment Tracker — the world’s only fully public database on Chinese non-bond investment. It contains more than 500 outward investments of $100 million or more made by the People’s Republic since 2005, worth over $475 billion.
2. CHINESE INVE$TMENT$
IN THE
UNITED STATES
Excluding bond purchases, Chinese investment in the
United States set a record last year at more than $14 billion, rising
more than 50 percent from 2012.
The American Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Foundation
have joined forces to create the China Global Investment Tracker
— the world’s only fully public database on Chinese nonbond
investment. It contains more than 500 outward investments of $100
million or more made by the People’s Republic and Chinese firms
since 2005, worth more than $475 billion.
The following are among the largest purchases in the United States
made by Chinese entities in 2013.
3. CHINESE INVE$TMENT$
IN THE
UNITED STATES
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1. Irving, TX 2. St. Louis, MO 3. Smithfield, VA 4. Indian Land, SC 5. New York City, NY
6. Los Angeles, CA 7. New York City, NY 8. San Francisco, CA 9. Memphis, TN
10. Mountain View, CA 11. Santa Monica, CA 12. Somers, NY
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4. CHINESE INVE$TMENT$
IN THE
UNITED STATES
ENERGY AND OIL
• Sinochem Group, China’s biggest supplier of chemical
products, bought a 40-percent stake in Texas oil-shale
acreage from Pioneer Natural Resources Co. for $500 million.
• Sinopec bought 50 percent of Mississippi Lime worth $1.02
billion.
AGRICULTURE
• Holding company Shuanghui purchased Smithfield Foods for $7.1
billion.
• Textile company Keer Group invested $218 million in Lancaster
County, SC, to produce industrial cotton yarn.
5. CHINESE INVE$TMENT$
IN THE
UNITED STATES
REAL ESTATE
• Investment firm Soho China bought 20 percent of the GM Building in New
York City for $680 million.
• Shanghai Greenland, one of the largest state-owned real estate
enterprises, bought $990 million worth of Los Angeles property.
• Fosun International Ltd, the investment arm of China’s biggest closely
held industrial group, bought 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza in New York City
from JP Morgan Chase & Co. The company, which invests in
properties, pharmaceuticals, and steel, paid $725 million for the high-rise
built by David Rockefeller.
• China Vanke Co, the largest residential real estate developer in
China, received a 70-percent stake in a $620 million joint venture to build
two luxury high-rise condominium towers in San Francisco.
6. CHINESE INVE$TMENT$
IN THE
UNITED STATES
MEDICAL SYSTEMS
• Mindray Medical bought ZONARE systems for $110 million.
• Shanghai Microport Scientific bought a unit of Wright
Medical for $290 million.
TECHNOLOGY
• Tencent bought 6 percent of Activision — maker of
the popular video game, Call of Duty — for $350
million.
• Lenovo bought IBM’s low-end server business for $2.3
billion.
7. CHINESE INVE$TMENT$
IN THE
UNITED STATES
LEARN MORE
To learn more about Chinese investments in the
United States and around the world, visit the
China Global Investment Tracker and read
“China invests (somewhat) more in the world”
by AEI’s Derek M. Scissors.