China Expands Global Clean Technology Investments

(MENAFN) Chinese companies have pledged $80 billion in overseas investments in clean technology since last year, according to a report published Monday by the Australian research organization Climate Energy Finance (CEF).

During the October 2024–25 period, China’s role as "the dominant global investor in clean-energy manufacturing and infrastructure" was "consolidated" through $80 billion worth of investments in newly disclosed projects spanning 26 countries, the report highlighted.

Regionally, Southeast Asia continues to serve as the main manufacturing center, led by Indonesia and Malaysia, "underscoring the region’s increasing economic integration with China," it added.

Europe attracted the largest portion of battery-related investments, whereas the Middle East and North Africa experienced the fastest growth in such projects.

The report noted that most Chinese outward investments, in terms of scale and design, increasingly target large, multi-phase projects.

China’s leading position in cleantech industries is becoming "increasingly central to its national economic and political interests," the analysis emphasized.

"Deepening cooperation with the Belt and Road Initiative partner countries has become Beijing’s strategic pillar for building its geopolitical influence in line with its consistent positioning as champion of the Global South to 'better bridge the development gap between the North and the South,'" the report concluded.

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