The Heat: China’s global investment

The Heat

China is already the world’s largest trading nation and the second largest economy. In the next few years, analysts have said, it’s likely to emerge as the world’s largest creditor.

A new study finds China now has a bigger presence in international development finance than all of the world’s six major financial institutions put together.

The Chinese Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China loaned an estimated $ 684 billion globally in 2014.

CCTV’s Yang Zhao reports from Beijing.

To take a deeper view of China’s growing global investment role:

  • Linda Yueh, adjunct professor of economics at the London Business School
  • David Dollar, senior fellow at Brookings Institution and the author of “China as a Global Investor”
  • Charles Tang, chairman of the Brazil-China Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Yukon Huang, senior associate in the Carnegie Asia Program