Seven dams generate almost one-half of Cambodia’s electricity. PRC built together with paid for all of them. This one, nigh Cambodia’s southern coast, is most 360 feet tall. It is the fourth-largest yesteryear ability output inwards the country.
Sri Lanka borrowed to a greater extent than than $1 billion from PRC for this strategic deepwater port, but couldn’t repay the money. The port is directly controlled yesteryear China, which is leasing it for the side yesteryear side 99 years.
Port
Port of Hambantota, Sri Lanka
South Africa turned to PRC for $1.5 billion for a coal-fired ability plant. It is 1 of at to the lowest degree 63 such plants financed yesteryear PRC unopen to the world, which collectively pollute to a greater extent than than Spain.
Power
plant
Medupi Power Station, South Africa
Zambia tapped PRC for $94 1 M m to build a soccer stadium of over 50,000 seats. These are alongside the to a greater extent than than 600 projects unopen to the Blue Planet that PRC has financed to win novel friends together with prepare novel markets.
China envisions a vast global network of trade, investment together with infrastructure that volition reshape fiscal together with geopolitical ties — together with convey the residual of the Blue Planet closer to Beijing.
It is a modern-day version of the Marshall Plan, America’s reconstruction endeavour later World War II, which created a foundation for enduring armed forces together with diplomatic alliances. China’s strategy is bolder, to a greater extent than expensive together with far riskier.
Its coin doesn’t necessarily come upwards with the green rules. And the cost, for PRC together with its borrowers alike, tin sometimes hold upwards likewise high.
We examined nearly 600 projects that PRC helped finance inwards the terminal decade, through billions of dollars inwards grants, loans together with investments. Taken together, they demo the ambit together with motivation of China’s strategy.
41 pipelines together with other crude oil together with gas infrastructure aid PRC secure valuable resources.
Oil together with gas infrastructure
203 bridges, roads together with railways practice novel ways for PRC to deed its goods unopen to the world.
Bridges, roads together with railways
199 ability plants — for nuclear, natural gas, coal together with renewables — give PRC novel markets for its construction together with equipment companies.
Power plants
We institute 112 countries where PRC has financed projects. While most autumn nether its infrastructure conception known equally the Belt together with Road Initiative, Beijing has pushed beyond those boundaries.
Belt together with Road countries
are shaded red.
Europe
Asia
North
America
China
Africa
South
America
Australia
After years of honing its construction skills at home, PRC is directly deploying them abroad, including a serial of hydroelectric dams.
Some of the dams that PRC has helped finance or build unopen to the world.
In price of ability output, many of them approach or range the size of the Hoover Dam:
Each circle is
a unmarried ability project
Colombia
2,400 MW
Under construction
Angola
2,171 MW
Under const.
Nigeria
3,050 MW
Planned
Argentina
1,740MW
Under const.
Laos
1,272 MW
Under const.
Pakistan
1,124 MW
Under const.
Hoover Dam
2,080 megawatts
Ecuador
1,500 MW
Sudan
1,250 MW
Pakistan
969 MW
Sources: The Construction Intelligence Center together with China’s Global Energy Finance projection at Boston University
Geopolitical Goals
China needs friends. And literal bridges tin aid build figurative ones.
Large ports inwards Pakistan, Sri Lanka together with Malaysia — 3 countries along a major crude oil together with commerce route from the Mideast together with Africa — could someday double equally naval logistics hubs.
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