|Economic globalization is the most important event in contemporary world economic development history, and multinational corporations are playing vital role in the process of economic globalization and integration. Their investment behavior and strategy adjustment has been an important impact on the world economy and the host country. It has been proved by practice that with the development of world economy and the progress of science and technology, multinational companies have become the leading role and be core of the world economy, which is the most active, the most important forces of economic globalization. We have been in a “you don’t think about globalization, globalization has been thinking about you” world economic environment. The postwar world has been in the era of competition between big companies. Multinational companies are not only the main force of the contemporary world economy, but also a concentrated reflection of national competitiveness. When it comes to the new century, Chinese government not only continues to absorb more foreign investments, but also attach importance to improve Chinese corporations to invest worldwide.
Since China becomes an official member of WTO on December 11th, 2001, Chinese foreign trade increased rapidly, Chinese corporations started joining the wave of globalization of world economy. In October 2003, Decision of the third session of the 16th National Congress of CPC said the strategy of “going out” is part of building socialist market economy system and building a more activate and opened economic system.
In the long run, the rise and growing up of multinational companies of Chine is an inevitable trend. The implementation of Cross-border M&A and integration of global resources is the inevitable way to make enterprises bigger and stronger. But on the whole, the present Chinese companies’ Cross-border M&A is still in the primary and exploring stage, lack in experience, weak in resource integration capability and cross-cultural management capability, facing many problems and risks in the process of Cross-border M&A. The purpose of this paper is to find out the general law of Cross-border M&A activity by combining through the existing theory of Cross-border M&A, in order to widen our vision and help Chinese companies find a way to solve the problems we are facing.