{"id":1431228,"date":"2026-08-24T12:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/over-100-new-companies-since-the-beginning-of-the-year-china-is-massively-opening-businesses-in-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T12:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:14:22","slug":"over-100-new-companies-since-the-beginning-of-the-year-china-is-massively-opening-businesses-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/over-100-new-companies-since-the-beginning-of-the-year-china-is-massively-opening-businesses-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 new companies since the beginning of the year: China is massively opening businesses in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In January-July 2026, citizens of 65 countries registered 709 new companies with foreign owners in Ukraine. The largest number of new businesses was created by citizens of China &#8211; 114 companies, which is almost three times more than in the same period in 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/opendatabot.ua\/analytics\/foreigners-business-2026-7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Opendatabot<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> In the first 7 months of 2026, Chinese people opened 114 new companies in Ukraine, which is 16% of the total number of businesses with foreign owners. Last year, 41 such companies were registered during the same period.<\/p>\n<p> As a result, China overtook Turkey for the first time in the number of new foreign-owned companies. The top 5 countries included:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> China &#8211; 114 companies;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Turkey &#8211; 98;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> USA &#8211; 62;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Germany &#8211; 44;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Azerbaijan &#8211; 35.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> The largest number of new companies with foreign beneficiaries was registered in Kyiv &#8211; 360, or about half of the total number. 110 such companies were opened in Odessa region, 78 in Lviv region, 22 in Kyiv region, and 20 in Khmelnytskyi region.<\/p>\n<p> The most popular area for foreign business was wholesale trade &#8211; 167 new companies, or 24% of the total. Entrepreneurs also most often chose:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> real estate transactions &#8211; 57 companies;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> construction of buildings &#8211; 54;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> IT &#8211; 45;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> head office activities &#8211; 40.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> Among the new companies with foreign owners are enterprises with hundreds of millions of hryvnias of declared authorized capital.<\/p>\n<p> The largest figure is held by Kyiv-based Agrotech Investment &#8211; 400.04 million hryvnias. Its beneficiary comes from Italy, and the company&#8217;s main activity is the provision of financial services.<\/p>\n<p> The second place is occupied by &#8220;Esko-gazservis&#8221; with an authorized capital of 250 million hryvnias. The company is engaged in the extraction of natural gas, and its owner is a citizen of Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p> The third is the holding company &#8220;Progeny Ukraine&#8221; with an authorized capital of 76.14 million hryvnias. Its beneficiary is a German citizen.<\/p>\n<p> As of mid-May 2026, 21,967 individual entrepreneurs owned by citizens of other countries were also officially registered in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> Let us remind you that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/svitovyy-biznes-dedali-aktyvnishe-vkladaie-hroshi-v-ukrainu-zmi\/\">global business increasingly believes in Ukraine<\/a> . If earlier our country was perceived primarily as a state that needed help, now it is increasingly viewed as a promising place for investment.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January-July 2026, citizens of 65 countries registered 709 new companies with foreign owners in Ukraine. The largest number of new businesses was created by citizens of China &#8211; 114 companies, which is almost three times more than in the same period in 2025. This is reported by Opendatabot . In the first 7 months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1095401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76892],"class_list":["post-1431228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1095401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}