At the same time, China’s labor-intensive production will increasingly move to countries with lower labor costs – including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and neighboring Vietnam (where Chinese firms have already established about 1,000 affiliates), as well as various African countries. This process has already begun, and has been supported since the beginning of the last decade by the government’s “Going Global” policy, through which it encourages outward FDI from China.
数据说明了一切：2008年，外国直接投资流出额在2007年230亿美元的基础上翻了一番多，达到了520亿美元，2009年又更上一层楼（同一年，由于西方金融和经济危机，世界外国直接投资流暴跌50%），并于2010年达到680亿美元。这使得中国成为世界第五大对外投资国（不计香港）。