To provide regular monitoring of, and reporting about, key macroeconomic developments in China, China's exports and imports and trends in inwards and outwards foreign investment; development and maintenance of a foreign direct investment database.

The results of the overall exercise shall be presented in 2 “China Observatory" reports per year addressing the developments formulated under Section 2.4 of the tender specifications. In addition, they should focus on topical issues as the need arises (normally 1 specific “feature article" per report), a half-day presentation of each observatory report to interested EU Institutions in Brussels and Beijing and Hong Kong, 4 “FDI flash reports" per year following the quarterly update of the investment database as well as ad-hoc briefs.