中国对非洲直接投资与资源寻求战略

China′s Outward FDI in Africa and Resource-seeking Strategy

虽然中国对非洲直接投资仅占中国对外直接投资总额的很小比重,但是伴随着中国对能源和矿产的持续需求以及资源寻求战略的形成,非洲丰裕的自然资源提高了其对中国资本的吸引力。中国对非洲直接投资主要由国有企业推动。网络理论认为,企业是嵌入在正式和非正式关系中的,而且企业通过对外投资来获取重要能力,从而提高竞争优势。本文通过基于承包工程的典型中非网络关系,解释了中国在非洲的资源寻求型对外直接投资行为,认为国有企业的活动主要受到国家战略利益的驱动。

Despite China′s Outward FDI(ODI) in Africa accounted for a small percentage of the country′s total ODI,Africa′s rich natural resources raise its attractiveness as China continually demanding energy and minerals and formulating the resource-seeking strategy.State-Owned Enterprises(SOEs) is the dominant power of ODI.The network theory argues that firms embedded in formal and informal relationships,and firms enhance their competitive advantage by acquiring important capability via investing abroad.This paper builds a typical model of Sino-Africa network relationships based on contracted projects to interpret China′s resource-seeking ODI in Africa,and finds that SOEs′ activities are driven primarily by national strategic interests.