This from China Banking News (Chinese media) today

  • The latest official data points to a plunge in overseas real estate investment by Chinese investors for the first half of 2017.
  • in the first half of 2017 China's non-financial outbound direct investment to 145 different countries and regions was USD$48.19 billion, for a year-on-year decline of 45.8%.

Plenty more here at the link