2017年CRI Chinese investment in Australia surges 11.7 percent

 

Chinese investment in Australia reaches 15 billion Australian dollars in 2016. [Photo: sina.com]

A new report has shown that Chinese investment in Australia surged 11.7 percent last year to over 15 billion Australian dollars.

The report by the auditing¹ firm - KPMG - and the University of Sydney shows a record 103 deals were signed with Chinese companies in 2016, with 76 percent of those reached with private firms.

The report found that commercial real estate remained the largest sector², attracting 36 percent of Chinese investment.

Since 2007, Australia has attracted a total of 90 billion U.S. dollars in new Chinese investment -- second only to the U.S. with more than 100 billion dollars.

For more on this, the Beijing Hour's Paul James spoke³ earlier with John Ross, Senior Fellow with the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University.

1 auditing   

n.审计，查账，决算

参考例句：

• Auditing standards are the rules governing how an audit is performed.收支检查标准是规则统治一个稽核如何被运行。
• The auditing services market is dominated by a few large accounting firms.审计服务市场被几家大型会计公司独占了。

2 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

3 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。