Political economy of land grabbing inside China involving foreign investors

Figures & data

Table 1. Two main foreign investors.

Name	Nationality of the company	Starting year	Investment (billion Yuan)*	Scale (1000 ha)
				State land	Collective-owned land	Total area
Stora Enso	Finland	2002	12.8	53.18	33.08	86.26
APP	Indonesia	1995	40.0	0	106.67	106.67

Source: Stora Enso, “Progress Book”; Liu Yang. 2016. APP Guangxi Plantation-Pulp-Paper Integration Project 2010.

* Yuan is Chinese currency. 1 Yuan equals US$0.14.

Figure 1. Chinese import volumes of pulp for paper (1000 tonnes). Source: FAOSTAT. Accessed 23 February 2015. http://faostat3.fao.org/download/F/FO/E

Table 2. Property rights of forestland in Guangxi (in 2010).

Type	Area (10,000 ha)	Percentage
State owned	148.88	9.28
Collective owned	1456.11	90.72
Total	1604.99	100.00

Source: Author elaboration from 12th Five-year Plan of the Development of Eucalyptus in Guangxi (2010–2015).