Chinas Aid To Africa Does Friendship Really Matter – Zhangxi Cheng (1)

The current planning and implementation approaches Having explored the aims and objectives of China’s current foreign aid above, this section details the planning and implementation approaches that China has developed as a result. Aimed at improving our understanding of China’s foreign aid practices as well as building up the measures required for investigations into China’s foreign aid performance, this section is structured in three parts that closely examines China’s foreign aid institutions, funding and implementation methods.

In accordance with The White Paper (2011), MOFCOM is the administrative ministry authorised by the State Council to oversee foreign aid, along with the Executive Bureau of International Economic Cooperation, the China International Centre for Economic and Technical Exchanges and the Academy of International Business Officials in charge of implementation management.

Given the earlier findings that China’s aid currently employs three primary funding methods and eight implementation methods, this section now explores how each of these institutions and methods relate. With regards to the planning of China’s aid, the authority over decision- making has always resided in the hands of the Central People’s Government. 22 Since the first aid China delivered in the 1950s, the State Council has continuously introduced and reformed aid institutions and mechanisms.

Today this means that MOFCOM, the MOF and the MFA lead 21 central and provincial institutions in a joint participation planning arrangement. Through the planning process, MOFCOM is primarily concerned with the economic aspects of foreign aid and mainly deals with the establishment of policies, the drafting of country specific plans and the coordination of implementations.

The MFA, on the other hand, is responsible for the political aspect of foreign aid such as the foreign aid principles and the decisions on supply. Additionally, the MOF controls the distribution of China’s annual foreign aid budget (Huang and Hu, 2009). Aside from these larger aid planning responsibilities, there are other institutions that take part according to their specialities, and they undertake planning for specific projects and programs.

For example, the Ministry of Agriculture arranges agricultural experts to transfer the required technologies to Chinese agricultural sites while the Ministry of Health allocates medical personnel, medicines and medical equipment to dispatch Medical Teams. In addition to these responsibilities, the management of these specialised projects are also passed to these institutions. Furthermore, adhering to the Notification of Adjustments of Foreign Aid Project Management (商务部办公厅关于调整援外项目管理工作职能分工的通知) implemented by MOFCOM in 2008, the implementation management of China’s primary foreign aid methods (namely Complete Project Aid, Goods and Materials Aid and HRDC), were likewise assigned to subsidiary public institutions of MOFCOM to further enhance administrative efficiency.

23 However, what needs to be particularly pointed out is that although the participation of specialised institutions have gradually increased in recent years, representing the Chinese government negotiates and signs off foreign aid agreements, MOFCOM remains the most important foreign aid institution (He, 2010).

China’s Aid to Africa Although China has rapidly increased foreign aid to Africa and is now a relatively major player in the developmental assistance regime, little is still known regarding how China delivers its foreign aid, and even less about how this foreign aid actually works in the recipient countries. This book, extensively utilising Chinese sources, many of which have not been available before, examines the effectiveness and sustainability of China’s foreign aid in Africa, as well as the political, economic and diplomatic factors that influence Chinese aid disbursement policies.

The book argues that a nebulous notion of “friendship”, however ill-defined, is a key factor in Chinese aid, something which is often overlooked by Western scholars. Through a detailed examination of both the decision-making process in Chinese aid disbursements, as well as an examination of specific case studies in West Africa, this book improves our understanding of China’s foreign aid policies towards Africa.

It finds that there are profound shortcomings in China’s foreign aid at present which, despite the protestations of “friendship” and solidarity, undermine Beijing’s effectiveness as an actor in the developmental assistance enterprise in Africa. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of development studies, African studies, China-Africa relations and more broadly to international relations. Zhangxi Cheng is Research Fellow at the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK.

Ian Taylor is Professor in International Relations and African Political Economy at the University of St. Andrews (UK); Chair Professor at Renmin University of China (China); Professor Extraordinary at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and Professor at the Centre of African Studies, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations Edited by Daniel C. Bach Emile Durkheim Centre for Comparative Politics and Sociology, Sciences Po Bordeaux 3 The Politics of Elite Corruption in Africa Roger Tangri and Andrew M. Mwenda 4 Reconstructing the Authoritarian State in Africa George Klay Kieh, Jr. and Pita Ogaba Agbese 5 Critical Perspectives on African Politics Liberal interventions, state-building and civil society Edited by Clive Gabay and Carl Death 6 Homegrown Development in Africa Reality or illusion?

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