China has helped North Korea, Vietnam, Albania, Cuba, Egypt and Algeria.
1. In 1950, China began to provide material assistance to North Korea and Vietnam, thus opening the prelude to China's foreign aid. 1955, after the Asia-Africa Conference in Bandung, with the development of foreign relations, the scope of China's foreign aid was extended from the socialist countries to other developing countries. 1956, China began to provide assistance to African countries.
In 1964, the Chinese government announced the eight principles of foreign economic and technical assistance, centered on equality and mutual benefit, and the absence of conditionalities, which established the basic policy of China's foreign assistance.
In October 1971, with the support of the vast number of developing countries, China resumed its lawful seat in the United Nations, established economic and technical cooperation with more developing countries, and assisted in the construction of the Tanzanian Railway and a number of other major infrastructure projects.
2. China began to implement human resource development cooperation programs in 1953. from the 1950s to the 1970s, China received a large number of interns from North Korea, Vietnam, Albania, Cuba, Egypt and other countries to study in China, involving more than 20 industries, such as agriculture, forestry, water conservancy, light industry, textile, transportation and health.
Since 1981, China has cooperated with the United Nations Development Program in organizing practical technology training courses in China for developing countries in various fields. Since 1998, the Chinese government has begun to organize training courses for officials, and the sectors, fields and scale of training have expanded rapidly.
By the end of 2009, China had organized more than 4,000 training courses of various kinds for developing countries in China, training 120,000 people, including trainees, managerial and technical personnel and officials. The training covered more than 20 fields, including economics, diplomacy, agriculture, medical and health care, and environmental protection. Currently, about 10,000 personnel from developing countries are trained in China every year.
In addition, China has trained a large number of management and technical personnel locally for recipient countries through technical cooperation and other means.
3. In 1963, China sent its first medical team to Algeria. To date, China has sent foreign medical aid teams to 69 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Oceania.
The teams generally work in backward areas of the recipient countries where there is a lack of medical care and medicines, and the conditions are very difficult. The team members have cured a large number of common and frequent diseases, and have used acupuncture, massage and Chinese and Western medicine to treat a number of difficult and serious illnesses, saving the lives of many dying patients. The medical team members also taught medical technology to local medical personnel, promoting the improvement of the local medical and health care level.
The foreign-aid medical team members have won the respect and praise of the governments and people of the recipient countries by serving the people of the recipient countries with their superb medical skills, good medical ethics and a high sense of responsibility and mission.
By the end of 2009, China had dispatched a total of more than 21,000 foreign-aided medical team members to foreign countries, and the number of patients diagnosed and treated by Chinese doctors in recipient countries had reached 260 million. 60 foreign-aided medical teams with 1,324 medical team members were deployed in 2009 to provide medical services in 130 medical institutions in 57 developing countries.
4. After the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004, China carried out the largest emergency rescue operation in the history of foreign aid, and provided various kinds of assistance to the affected countries*** amounting to more than 700 million yuan.
Over the past five years, the Chinese government has carried out emergency assistance nearly 200 times, including providing emergency technical assistance to Southeast Asian countries in the prevention and treatment of avian influenza; providing material or cash emergency assistance to countries affected by locusts and cholera in Guinea-Bissau, dengue fever in Ecuador, influenza A (H1N1) in Mexico, the earthquakes in Iran, Pakistan, Haiti, and Chile, the hurricanes in Madagascar, the tropical storms in Myanmar and Cuba, and the floods in Pakistan; and providing material or cash emergency assistance to countries affected by the floods in Pakistan. emergency assistance in materials or cash remittances;
Providing emergency food aid to DPRK, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan, Burundi, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and other countries.
5. In May 2002, China sent five young volunteers to Laos for the first time to carry out six-month volunteer service in the fields of education and health care.
By the end of 2009, China had dispatched 405 foreign-aid young volunteers to 19 developing countries***, including Thailand, Ethiopia, Laos, Myanmar, Seychelles, Liberia, and Guyana, with their services covering such areas as Chinese language teaching, traditional Chinese medicine treatment, agricultural science and technology promotion, sports training, computer training, and international rescue.
Including Ethiopia, Guyana and many other countries, China began to dispatch Chinese language teacher volunteers to foreign countries in 2003. By the end of 2009, China had dispatched 7,590 Chinese teacher volunteers*** to more than 70 countries around the world.
Expanded Information:
China's foreign aid policy:
1. China's foreign aid policy insists on not attaching any political conditions. China adheres to the five principles of peace*** and respects the right of each recipient country to independently choose its own path and mode of development, believing that each country will be able to explore a path of development suited to its own national conditions, and will never use assistance as a means of interfering in the internal affairs of other countries or seeking political privileges.
2. China's foreign aid policy insists on equality and mutual benefit, and ****same development. China insists on treating foreign aid as mutual help among developing countries, paying attention to practical results, taking into account the interests of the other side, and endeavoring to promote bilateral friendly relations and mutual benefit***win through economic and technical cooperation with other developing countries.
3. China's foreign aid policy is based on the principle of keeping within one's means and doing one's best. In terms of the scale and mode of assistance, China provides assistance to the best of its ability based on its own national conditions. It focuses on giving full play to its comparative advantages and maximizing the practical needs of recipient countries.
4. China's foreign aid policy adheres to keeping pace with the times, reform and innovation. China's foreign aid is responsive to the development and changes of the situation at home and abroad, focusing on summarizing experience, innovating the way of foreign aid, adjusting and reforming the management mechanism in a timely manner, and constantly improving the level of foreign aid work.
Baidu Encyclopedia-China's Foreign Aid
People's Daily Online-China's Foreign Aid in the Past 60 Years: 7% of State Financial Expenditure at Most