Statistics from the Ministry of Commerce show that between January and September 2015, Chinese enterprises invested a total of $12.03bn in the 48 countries along the route of the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative, representing a year-on-year growth of 66.2%. The aforementioned investments have gone mainly to Singapore, Kazakhstan, Laos, Indonesia, Russia and Thailand. Ten countries that have received at least $1bn worth of investments from China are: Hong Kong, Cayman Islands, the U.S., Singapore, British Virgin Islands, the Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Australia, Laos and Brazil.