Investors Find European Luster Mixed With Risk

(Beijing) -- Chinese companies acquired a combined US$ 8.25 billion worth of European corporate assets last year, up 22 percent from 2011 and accounting for 11 percent of all Chinese investments overseas, the Ministry of Commerce said.

Moreover, according to a report by the ratings agency Standard & Poor's, the value of Chinese company acquisitions in Europe has increased 26 percent from five years ago. Chinese corporate investment in the United States, by contrast, was almost flat during the same five-year period.