This aerial photo shows a cargo ship at a smart container terminal of Tianjin Port in North China's Tianjin, July 7, 2023. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

BEIJING – China's non-financial outbound direct investment (ODI) increased 17.3 percent year on year to 736.2 billion yuan in the first 10 months of the year, official data showed on Thursday.

In US dollar terms, the ODI stood at $104.74 billion in the period, up 11 percent from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Commerce.

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