China's non-financial outbound direct investment up 26.3 pct in Q1

China's non-financial outbound direct investment (ODI) rose 26.3 percent year on year to 215.97 billion yuan in the first quarter of the year, official data showed Thursday.

In U.S. dollar terms, the ODI stood at 31.54 billion U.S. dollars in the period, up 17.2 percent from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Commerce.