The China Cross-Border Monitor

Rhodium Group’s China Cross-Border Monitor (CBM) aims to increase transparency on China’s global investments and economic footprint. Traditional statistics capturing outbound FDI by Chinese companies are distorted by tax optimization and capital controls, creating a skewed picture of China’s overseas investments. Our transaction-based methodology tracks more than half a million individual investments worldwide, helping create a more transparent view of China’s global investment footprint.

In line with the broader CBM mission to increase the transparency of China’s overseas economic footprint, much of our data is free to the public. Users can break down the data by geography, industry, investor, and other variables so the output fits their research needs. Our dataset can provide answers to questions as broad as “how much Chinese investment is there in Germany” to “how many greenfield automotive investments did Chinese firms make in Morocco in the last four years?”