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Since the signing of China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement（CAFTA）in 2002,the economic relationship between China and Thailand have unprecedentedly increased,and increased more after the One Belt One Road（OBOR）started in 2013.Chinese outward foreign direct investment（OFDI）in Thailand is determined by several strategies,because Thailand has great potential to become the investment base to serve as the gateway to ASEAN and global markets for Chinese enterprises.According to MOFCOM,Thailand is one of the biggest recipients of Chinese foreign direct investment（FDI）in the region.Chinese investors continually invest in Thailand.Though Thailand’s political instability has disturbed the economic context,leading to the fluctuation of China’s OFDI in Thailand,the investment size keeps increasing obviously.Thailand’s three investment zones have different factors to meet Chinese company’s demand from diverse aspects,including geography,transportation,natural resources,production cost and government’s promotion.In general,determinants and motives behind China’s OFDI in Thailand include Market Seeking,Resource Seeking and Efficiency Seeking.However,the study about China’s OFDI in Thailand is rather lack in the present.Thus it is very necessary to do deep research on China’s OFDI in Thailand.This research uses statistics which cover 2003-2017 to study the economic relations and effects between China and Thailand from the viewpoint of investment as well as determinants and motives of China’s OFDI in Thailand,to address the particularities of Chinese investment project in Thailand,and to explore Chinese companies in Thailand investment area.This research explores problems from the economic relations and gives some recommendations.The research used the correlation analysis to prove that China’s OFDI has affected Thailand’s economic development and Thailand’s trade.Overall,the research will be useful for the two country’s government and Chinese investors to understand the investment situation,determinants and significance of China’s OFDI along with barriers of China’s OFDI in Thailand.