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- Title
Singapore Foreign Direct Investment in China: Features and Implications.
- Authors
Lu Ding; Zhu Gangti
- Abstract
This article presents the results of a survey of 95 Singapore companies and their 125 foreign direct investment (FDI) project packages in the People's Republic of China from 1990 to 1993. Several features are revealed: (1) small and medium-sized Singapore firms are actively involved in FDI in China; (2) the two provinces where Singapore Chinese business people have dialect advantages host more than 46 per cent of total investment; (3) the industrial distribution of the investment is heavily concentrated in construction and manufacturing projects with labour-intensive and flexible technologies. These findings suggest that small firms have their own competitive niche in the field of foreign direct investment. Singapore's managerial expertise and "software" in property development, industrial park construction, doing business with multinational corporations, and handling technology transfers are in high demand in China. Both ethnic ties and governmental encouragement have favoured and influenced business ventures.
- Subjects
CHINA; SINGAPOREAN investments; CAPITAL movements
- Publication
ASEAN Economic Bulletin, 1995, Vol 12, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
0217-4472
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1355/AE12-1E