Complete projects are a major form of China’s foreign aid. From 1954, China had helped Vietnam and DPRK repair war-damaged railways, roads, ports, bridges and urban transport facilities, and assisted them in building a number of basic industrial projects, thus making great contributions to their post-war reconstruction and economic development. Later, foreign aid in complete projects expanded in scale and scope, and accounted for a bigger proportion among China’s foreign aid expenditure. At present, they account for 40% of China’s foreign aid expenditure.
By the end of 2009, China had helped developing countries con-struct and complete over 2,000 complete projects closely linked to local people’s life and production, covering industry, agriculture, culture and education, health care, communication, power supply, energy, transportation and others.
Table 1 Sectoral Distribution of Complete Projects Overseas Completed with the Help of China (by the end of 2009)
Note: Data in this table exclude projects undertaken with concessional loans.