ABSTRACT
This chapter retraces the globalization trajectories of Chinese SOEs in Benin and Ghana since the 1980s. It aims to understand the fi rst step of their globalization process: why the Chinese SOEs choose the two West African countries (or Africa in general) as globalization destinations and to what extent the Chinese state initiates, or hinders, the process. It allows for a better appreciation of how opportunities and strategies of Chinese SOE globalization situate in the Chinese context: relations of the Chinese state with Chinese economic actors at diverse levels and the Chinese institutional context of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI, 海外经营权).
