(Correspondent: Feng Zhuoran) Recently, Chinese Private Enterprise Overseas Direct Investment Index 2020 Annual Report compiled by the team of Professor Xue Jun was officially released, which is the fourth annual report of the Index since Professor Xue Jun returned to China for teaching in 2017. The book was selected into the Recommended Catalogue of Key Books of People's Publishing House in August 2021.

The annual report of the Index is different from the previous three reports, which were limited into the analysis of the data of the top 500 private enterprises. It turns to take the whole Chinese private enterprises (i.e., the entire sample) as the research object for the first time, which more accurately reflects the development trend of overseas direct investment of Chinese private enterprises since China's WTO accession. It can not only fill in the blank of China's research data on OFDI of private enterprises, but also better systematically analyze and sort out the behavior characteristics of OFDI of Chinese private enterprises, thus providing an important basis for China's private enterprises to establish a long-term mechanism of sustainable going out and provide policy consulting options for domestic government departments. Moreover, it provides a reliable reference data for the relevant researches of scientific research institutes, universities and other relevant institutions, therefore opening up a new research field on the going out of Chinese enterprises.

Professor Xue Jun's team has always adhered to the three principles of Unique International, Statistical, and Sustainable, and strives to build a high-quality and reliable brand of Nankai China OFDI Index brand.

This report will provide a tool to some organizations and scholars for discussing the rules behind the cross-border flows of Chinese private capitals, and it marks a pioneering attempt to study the overseas investments of Chinese private enterprises, which are contributory to more regulated, reasonable and efficient outbound investments of Chinese private enterprises.