Despite conscious efforts to diversify import sources, China’s oil suppliers are heavily concentrated in the Middle East and Africa.
Current data show that eight nations out of China’s 10 biggest oil suppliers are located in these two regions.
In the mid-1990s most of China’s oil deals were mainly with Indonesia, Oman, and Yemen.
Africa became a target for Chinese investment only a decade later, after the launch of the “Go abroad” policy in 2002.