Foreign Direct Investments in Chinese Economy

Bc. Guzel Temirkhanova, BA

Master's thesis

Abstract:

This thesis is aimed to analyse a possible influence of foreign direct investment (herein- after as FDI) on the hosting country. The basic idea is to reveal the idea of the FDI, including the types of them, factors affecting and influencing foreign investors’ decisions which country to choose, why the country will be beneficial to invest in, global investment trends, explanation of notions of the capital flows, major investment policy changes and capital distribution, taking into account geographic and structural matters, etc. In order to limit the broadness of the topic, Chinese economy will be examined in particular. For the past decades, China (or People’s Republic of China) became a very attractive place for the foreign investors in terms of investing to manufacturing, real estate, business services, as well as wholesale and retail trade. Before the year of 1979, China had a centrally controlled economy, which was fairly poor and stable, but isolated from the global arena. Since China implemented the foreign trade and free-market reforms in 1979, China accessed the perspectives of the global trade that boosted their GDP. These steps also gave the roots to raise their economy and showed their significance on the international arena.

Keywords

FDI, Foreign, Investment, Economic Growth, GDP, China, Development, Analysis, Import, Export, Economy

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 30. 3. 2021

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: doc. Ing. Karel Tomšík, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Master programme / field:
Economics and Management / Economics and Management