China's non-financial outbound direct investment up 26.3% in Q1

BEIJING - China's non-financial outbound direct investment (ODI) rose 26.3 percent year-on-year to 215.97 billion yuan in the first quarter of the year, official data showed Thursday.

In US dollar terms, the ODI stood at $31.54 billion in the period, up 17.2 percent from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Commerce.