O PROCESSO DE REESTRUTURAÇÃO ECONÔMICA DO TERRITÓRIO FLUMINENSE E A TERRITORIALIZAÇÃO DOS INVESTIMENTOS CHINESES NO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO NAS PRIMEIRAS DÉCADAS DO SÉCULO XXI

This paper has as its theme the process of economic restructuring of the territory of Rio de Janeiro and the territorialization of Chinese investments in the state of Rio de Janeiro in the first decades of the twenty-first century. The objectives of this article are to highlight the process of emergence of the People's Republic of China as an international investor, to identify the contribution of Chinese investments in Brazil and to analyze the territorialization of Chinese investments in the process of economic restructuring of the territory of Rio de Janeiro in the first decades of the twenty-first century. To this end, we adopted the qualitative-quantitative methodology. Thus, after the introduction, the first section presents the area of study, the time frame and the methodological framework, the second section highlights the quantitative aspects of Chinese foreign direct investments. In the third section, we identify the contribution of these investments in Brazil. In the fourth section, our analyses reach the territorialization of Chinese investments in the first decades of the twenty-first century.