Journal of International Development Cooperation
Korea International Cooperation Agency
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China's Foreign Aid:

Tang Lixia1, Ma Jiewen1, Li Xiaoyun1
1College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University

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Published Online: Apr 01, 2019

Abstract

Over the years, while focusing on its own development, China has been providing aid within its capacity to other developing countries with economic difficulties, and fulfilling its due international obligations. This paper attempts to make a systematic introduction and review of China's foreign aid from an historical and policy perspective, including scale, methods, fieldwork, and, management experiences as practical challenges. As an important external field of China’s own development experience, China's foreign aid has actively supported the political independence, economic development and social progress of developing countries, made a significant contribution to the realization of China’s international strategic objectives in different periods and set a good example for “South-South cooperation”. It is a useful supplement to the traditional Western aid architecture. Meanwhile, there is still the need to enhance the level of intellectual debate around China's foreign aid policies, to continue to make innovations to the foreign aid mode, to optimize the assistance structure, and actively engage in effective dialogue with Western countries to cope with increasingly severe international challenges.

Keywords: China’s foreign aid; South-South Cooperation; Mutual benefit