Despite recent China-U.S. trade disputes, international investors remain confident in China's technological advancements and economic stability, and continue to seek new opportunities.
At the two-day 2025 Global Investor Conference, which opened Monday in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, investors reaffirmed their commitment to investing in the country.
During interviews with China Global Television Network (CGTN), investors noted that China's transformation into a sci-tech powerhouse makes it an attractive long-term investment, presenting a promising outlook for those pursuing sustained growth.
"China is in a transformation stage, to transform from a trade-led economy, from a market-led, from an infrastructure-led to a new energy, AI. We saw DeepSeek, and also those high value-added industries really make us believe China will transform," said Leo Shen, General Manager of Allianz Global Investors Fund Management Company.
"China has been continuously expanding its market share in areas like science and technology, environment, energy, and biotechnology, which I think will bolster the resilience of its A-share market. We thus stay optimistic about the Chinese market and plan to maintain a high allocation to Chinese stocks this year," said Junjie Watkins, Asia CEO of Pictet Asset Management from Switzerland.
Beyond sci-tech advancement, China's stability and strategic vision also attract international investors.
"For the long-term investors or investors in general, it is so fundamental that the country that they hold the asset of all the key technologies have a long-term vision and that it provides a strong, both stability, legal framework as well as the resiliency. And China has all that," said Imtiaz Mahtab, Venture Director of Obeikan Investment Group from Saudi Arabia.
"China, other countries in Asia, are a very, very important part of any investment portfolio. When it's going to be over half the world economy in the future, one has to invest in this region. China, the level of skill, the level of capability of infrastructure means that it's a great place to invest," said Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalization and Development at the University of Oxford.
However, investors are also worried about the geopolitical uncertainty behind Asia's economic growth.
"We do not know what will happen, what the U.S. will do after this pause. And so, it's very important that China continues, I believe, and other countries continue to diversify the export opportunities, to diversify their supply chains," said Goldin.
Global investors show confidence in China's tech growth, economic stability
