China pours US$6.1b into Brazil, making it Beijing’s top investment worldwide: report
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The 45 per cent jump in value from the previous year far outpaced the 4.8 per cent rise in total foreign investment into Brazil. It also dwarfed China’s worldwide outbound flows, which grew just 1.3 per cent. Brazil absorbed 10.9 per cent of all Chinese overseas capital, ahead of the US at 6.8 per cent.
Tulio Cariello, the report’s author and director of research at CBBC, said the headline number mattered less than where Chinese money was going.
Advertisement“We have seen greater diversification, including in areas where China used to invest in the United States,” he said.Mining investment more than tripled, Chinese carmakers opened factories on sites vacated by Western carmakers, tech firms, including Meituan’s food delivery arm, launched operations and projects in sustainability and green energy hit a record 31, or 60 per cent of all Chinese ventures in Brazil that year.
AdvertisementChinese firms poured US$1.76 billion into mining, more than triple the 2024 figure. CMOC bought gold mines from Canada’s Equinox Gold for roughly US$1 billion. MMG acquired Anglo American’s Brazilian nickel operations for US$500 million. And newcomer Baiyin Nonferrous bought a copper mine in the northeastern state of Alagoas for US$243 million.
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