GTAI publishes its FDI Reporting each year
Supplementary sources of data about
Chinese direct investment in Germany
Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI )
Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI) publishes its FDI Report-
ing each year, containing data about foreign investors in
Germany broken down by various aspects, including coun-
try and sector of investment (GTAI 2016).
The Special: FDI source countries compared also provides detailed informa-
tion on a total of 23 FDI source countries, including China
(GTAI 2014). GTAI also considers foreign companies with
total assets of less than €3 million. This distinguishes
GTAI ’ s figures concerning the number of foreign compa-
nies in Germany and their employees fromthose released
by the German Federal Bank. GTAI has traditionally focused
on collecting data on greenfield investments, reflecting its
primary interest to promote Germany as a business loca-
tion (e. G. GTAI 2014: 11-13). It has since begun to publish
data on M&A transactions based on the Zephyr database
produced by Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (GTAI
2016).
The GTAI data is generally based on the absolute
number of investment projects, not the amount invested.
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