Domestic enterprises should start on a small scale to reduce opposition and obstacles from local cooperative partners

In the context of China's accelerated efforts to push forward its "go global" strategy, domestic enterprises have conducted an increasing number of overseas business and investment activities, but also encountered ever-growing investment risks.

China's enterprises rarely experienced such risks during the initial period of the country's reform and opening-up, during which it mainly exported products and labor while introducing foreign investment. China's economy has entered a new stage after three decades of booming development and its ever-deepening economic links with the outside world are no longer confined to the exporting of products and labor and the importing of foreign capital alone. Aside from the export of products and labor, China's efforts to integrate itself in the global economy will usher in increased outward investment activities, as part of its growing economic interdependence with the world.