The world financial crisis has severely dampened Chinese companies' enthusiasm for investing overseas, although many of them said they still want to go global, results of a survey showed yesterday.

About 85 percent of respondents said their overseas business has been hampered by the crisis, and as a result, merely 7 percent said they would like to add to their outflows this year.

However, when asked whether they will expand overseas investment in the next two years, 40 percent answered yes.