From 2008-2021, China’s two main development finance institutions (DFIs) provided nearly a half a trillion dollars in development finance to foreign governments.

The China’s Overseas Development Finance (CODF) Database is the first global, harmonized, validated and geolocated record of Chinese overseas development finance. It covers the years 2008-2021 and includes loans from China’s two main DFIs, the China Development Bank and Export-Import Bank of China, to governments, inter-governmental bodies, majority state-owned entities and minority state-owned entities with sovereign guarantees.