1. China's non-financial outbound direct investment (ODI) continued to see robust growth in the first eight months of 2015 as investment to countries along the Belt and Road surges, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on Wednesday. The ODI rose 18.2 percent to 473.4 billion yuan (74.3 billion U.S. dollars) during the January-August period, according to MOC spokesman Shen Danyang. In August alone, outbound investment came in at 13.5 billion U.S. dollars, up 7 percent year on year.
2. Zhang Yujun, assistant chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission, is being investigated for "severe disciplinary violations," the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China said on Wednesday.
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