Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas was hit by floods in 2017. The Chinese
government launched post-disaster reconstruction projects there using the South-South
Cooperation Assistance Fund to offer emergency humanitarian aid for the local people. Photo
shows a man receiving living materials donated through the post-disaster reconstruction projects.
(Photo courtesy of the China International Development Cooperation Agency)
Officials with the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) briefed China’s
anti-COVID assistance and international development cooperation at a press conference held by
the State Council Information Office (SCIO) on Oct. 26.
The officials said that since 1950, China has offered all types of assistance for over 160 countries.
The country implemented thousands of complete projects and material aid programs, carried out
over ten thousand technological cooperation and human resource development programs, and
trained more than 400,000 personnel for developing countries.
China will prioritize health, focus on green development, improve well-being and uphold
multilateralism to promote international development cooperation and build a community with a
shared future for mankind.
CIDCA chairman Luo Zhaohui noted that apart from traditional bilateral aid, China has enhanced
its communication and cooperation with Western countries and international organizations
including the UN, to explore multilateral and trilateral cooperation actively.
When carrying out complete projects, China instills development capabilities in recipient
countries, promoting human resource training and exchanges of national governance experiences,
and combining grants and concessional loans to lower financing costs, Luo remarked.
Besides, China has also enhanced the whole-chain monitoring of aid projects, prevented and
managed risks to clean assistance, improved the quality of the projects, and emphasized post-
project evaluation to ensure the sustainable development of its foreign aid, Luo noted.
He said China not only is the first country in the world to have made remarkable achievements in
pandemic control and recovered economic growth, but also has initiated an emergency
humanitarian aid with the longest time span and covering the most comprehensive range.
“Since this year, China has provided over 1.5 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines for 106
countries and four international organizations, contributing significantly to pandemic control and
international anti-pandemic cooperation,” Luo remarked.
Zhou Liujun, vice chairman of the CIDCA, said China had made fruitful results in its cooperation
on health, agriculture, education, and green development under the frameworks of the Forum on
China-Africa Cooperation and the China-CELAC Forum, which will help build a closer China-
Africa community with a shared future and a closer China-CELAC community with a shared
future. Besides, Zhou added that China’s aid for the island countries in the South Pacific also
achieved positive progress.
Speaking of China’s vaccine aid, Deng Boqing, vice chairman of the CIDCA, said the safety and
efficacy of Chinese vaccines have been proved as the World Health Organization (WHO)
approved Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines for emergency use. He added that the large number of
shots given around the globe also fully proved the safety and efficacy of Chinese vaccines. The
international society is confident about Chinese vaccines, and scientific studies and clinical data
are also in support of them, Deng said.
Climate change is an alarm sounded by the Nature for humanity. According to Zhang Maoyu, vice
chairman of CIDCA, China has implemented over 200 foreign aid projects to cope with climate
change in the recent eight years, including 70 for mitigation and 150 for adaption. Besides, China
has also launched over 80 training sessions about climate change and trained nearly 2,000
personnel.
In recent years, under the South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund framework, China has
cooperated with multiple UN organizations to launch development programs in food aid, post-
disaster reconstruction, refugee relief, and maternal and child health in over 50 countries. The
country also joined hands with Switzerland, Portugal, the UK, the United States, Australia, and
New Zealand to implement third-party cooperation projects centering on agriculture, health, and
other livelihood sectors.
