On July 20th, the Internet Operation Analysis Team of the Institute of Policy and Economics of the China Institute of Information and Communications released the report on the operation of Internet investment and financing in the second quarter of 2018. The report shows that in the second quarter of 2018, China’s Internet investment and financing reached 27.6 billion. The US dollar grew by 133% from the previous month, accounting for nearly half of the global Internet investment and financing.
Capital market activity increased significantly: The number of investment and financing cases increased by 66% from the previous month and increased by 87.4% year-on-year. The high level of industry investment was mainly due to the tightening of global capital, and the establishment of enterprises to prepare for the winter. The investment quota reached a new high: the amount of investment and financing disclosed The increase was 133.9%, up 72.5% year-on-year, mainly because of the favorable policies to promote the financing of high-quality unicorn companies. The proportion of early financing reached 74.5%, an increase of 9.8%.
In the key areas of Internet investment and financing, the Internet finance sector has become the most active field. In the second quarter of 2018, the amount of financing in the Internet finance sector reached US$16.2 billion, with Ant Financial, and the leading enterprises represented by Manbang Group are driving Internet finance. The field has become a high-lying area, with 35 cases of investment and financing exceeding US$100 million.
Globally, in the second quarter of 2018, the global Internet investment and financing amounted to 56.9 billion US dollars. The global capital market activity stabilized and rebounded. The amount of investment and financing increased significantly, increasing by 58.5% from the previous month and up 35.8% year-on-year. Among the total, China and the United States accounted for the largest share, far surpassing other countries. In the second quarter, China’s total Internet investment and financing exceeded that of the United States.