Firms head overseas in China's quest for natural resources

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August 2008

Ken DeWoskin

China’s search for resources – from oil and gas, minerals and metals, and now to farmland – is reaching all corners of the world. An appetite for energy resources drove China’s first outbound investments in the early decade of reform. In recent months, the intense volatility and inflation of global commodity prices, combined with China’s vast capital reserves, has re-energized the effort.

At the mega-size end of the spectrum, Aluminum Corporation of China ...

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