¹We would like especially to thank Mariano Alvarez and Osvaldo Rosales from ECLAC for their assistance. Sources: "The People's Republic of China and Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards a strategic relationship" (ECLAC, April 2010); "2010 Statistical Bulletin of China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment" (MOFCOM, April 2011); "Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010" (ECLAC, May 2011); and "People's Republic of China and Latin America and the Caribbean: Ushering in a new era in the economic and trade relationship" (ECLAC, June 2011).