China's Global Energy Finance Database

(Global Development Policy Center, Boston, 12 February 2021) In 2020, China’s two development banks with global operations — the China Development Bank (CDB) and the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM) — recorded $4.6 billion of overseas energy sector finance. This represents a decrease of 43%, from the $8.1 billion in lending to foreign countries recorded in 2019. The China’s Global Energy Finance Database is an interactive data project that exhibits financing for global energy projects by China’s two global policy banks—the China Development Bank (CDB) and the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM).