Written question asked by Matthew Offord (Conservative) on Monday, 12 December 2022, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 14 December 2022. It was answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative) on Tuesday, 20 December 2022 on behalf of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Africa: China

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the amount of Chinese state financial aid administered to African countries in the last decade.

Answer: China does not publish comprehensive data on its development finance to other countries. A white paper on "China's International Development Cooperation in the New Era" (https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/whitepaper/202101/10/content_WS5ffa6bbbc6d0f72576943922.html), published by the Chinese Government in January 2021, provides some information about China's foreign assistance between 2013 to 2018. A number of research institutions also compile information on Chinese development finance and other aid, including AidData (https://www.aiddata.org/data/aiddatas-global-chinese-development-finance-dataset-version-2-0) and the China-Africa Research Initiative (http://www.sais-cari.org/).

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