Impacts of MNE’s Investment：Impacts of Multinational Enterprises’ Transnational Investment in China

Abstract:
Depending on people’s different point of view, multinational enterprises (MNE) are either heroes or villains of globalized economy. Multinational company (MNC) was used by local government to compete for foreign direct investment. Just in last year, on September 3rd, 2008, in conformity of be optimistic about the development potential of Chinese beverage industry, Coca-Cola, one of the biggest MNE in the world, announced that they made acquisition in Hui Yuan group—Chinese Thesis largest juice beverage company at price of 17.92 billion Hong Kong dollars in total. Once the information was published, a fierce debate was established about whether we should sell so many tribal industries and companies to foreign investors or not. Besides, a lot of people expressed their anxious concerning the possible impact that domestic industry may suffer from as well. So it is necessary to do a detail analysis aimed at MNEs’ transnational investment in the following contents.

List of Tables:

Table 2-1: The proportion of developed and developing countries’ FDI in world total FDI flows from 1988 to 2005 (parts)……………………………………………………15

Table 2-2: Top five transnational companies in China……………………………….. 21
Table 2-2-1 Top five in terms of  overall assessment…………………………………….21
Table 2-2-2 Top five in terms of best operation………………………………………….21
Table 2-2-3 Top five in terms of public image…………………………………………..22
Table 2-2-4 Top five in terms of regional contribution…………………………………..22

Table 3-1: The stock variety of outflow FDI on developing countries………………..25

Table 3-2: Annual outflow volume, annual growth volume and annual absolute growth rate of China’s non-financial FDI in 2007……………………………………..26

List of Figures
Figure 2-1: The 3 main feature classifications of multinational corporations……. 12
2-1-1 Geographic distribution………………………………………………………….12
2-1-2 the source of investment…………………………………………………………12
2-1-3 the structure of industry………………………………………………………….12

Figure 2-2: The proportion of industrial pattern for developed countries’ FDI in
global foreign direct investment………………………………………………………16

Figure 3-1: Proportion of developed country and developing country’s FDI in the
total world volume……………………………………………………………………..26

Figure 3-2: The variety of China's Non-financial FDI flow from 2002 to 2007……32

Figure 4-1: The basic market share of China’s whole car market in 2008…………37

Figure 4-2: The proportion of each different country’s car in 2008………………..37

Table of Contents:
List of Tables……………………………………………………………………………..2
List of Figures……………………………………………………………………………3
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