The dashboard provides an interactive view of Chinese official-sector financing for energy across EMDE, enabling users to explore project-level data by year, recipient country or region, technology, instrument, provider type and currency (when applicable). Developed to bring greater understanding of China’s diverse financing channels, the dashboard allows users to filter and compare flows in either USD (2024, MER) or by project count. It is designed to complement the analysis in this report and to support deeper understanding of how different institutions and instruments shape China’s role in EMDE energy finance.

Use the filters to explore how Chinese energy finance is distributed around the world.

Technology: specifies the type of technology the provided financing supports. When a specific project spans multiple technologies, they are split proportionally.

• Fossil fuel supply: Activities related to the extraction, processing and transport of fossil fuels, including coal mining, oil and gas production, liquefaction, refining, pipelines and associated infrastructure. This category covers upstream and midstream supply rather than electricity generation.

• Fossil fuel generation: Electricity and heat generation using fossil fuels, including coal-, oil- and natural gas–fired power plants. It excludes fossil fuel supply activities and focuses only on power and heat production. Fossil fuel generation projects in this dashboard do not explicitly include carbon capture, utilisation and storage technologies.

• Grids and storage: Infrastructure for transmitting, distributing and managing electricity, including transmission and distribution networks, substations, grid reinforcement and battery energy storage systems. Storage refers primarily to grid-connected battery storage used to balance supply and demand.

• Renewable generation: Electricity generation from renewable energy sources, including solar photovoltaics, wind, hydropower, geothermal, modern bioenergy and renewable waste. It covers utility-scale and distributed renewable power projects.

• Transport: Energy-related infrastructure and assets linked to the transport of people and goods, including railways, urban transit systems, ports and fuel or electricity supply for transport. It includes transport electrification and efficiency-related investments where applicable.

• Nuclear generation: Electricity generation from nuclear power plants, including new reactor construction, life extensions and major refurbishments of existing nuclear facilities.

• Industry: Energy use and energy-related infrastructure in industrial activities, including manufacturing, construction and processing industries such as steel, cement, chemicals and aluminium. It includes projects related to industrial energy supply, efficiency improvements and low-emissions industrial processes.

• Buildings: Energy use and energy-related investments in residential and services buildings, including space heating and cooling, water heating, lighting, appliances and building electrification. Services buildings include commercial and institutional buildings such as schools, hospitals and offices.

• Other: Energy-related projects that either (i) fall into smaller categories not shown separately in the dashboard — including non-renewable waste generation and low-emissions fuels — or (ii) are multi-sector / integrated transactions where the underlying technologies cannot be reliably attributed to a single category with the available information. These activities are grouped here because their volumes are small and/or the technology split is not identifiable at the project level.

Region: Please refer to the Annex of the report (insert hyperlink of the report) for specific regional groupings for this dashboard.

Instrument:

• Debt: Capital provided in the form of loans or bonds that must be repaid over an agreed period (tenor), typically with interest. In this report, debt includes short- and long-tenor lending by policy banks, commercial banks and other financial institutions to finance energy-related projects.

• Equity: Capital invested in exchange for an ownership stake in an asset, company or project, with returns linked to future profits, dividends or asset value rather than fixed repayments. In this report, equity includes direct investments in energy assets or project companies, joint ventures, acquisitions, as well as commitments to equity funds and fund-of-fund structures that invest in energy-related infrastructure.

• Grant: The transfer of funds by development finance institutions or donors, usually with an obligation to spend the money on a contractually defined project or set of eligible expenses. Grant payments do not need to be repaid with money or equity as long as the contractual conditions are met.

Provider:

• State-owned policy bank: A state-owned financial institution established to support national economic and development objectives through long-term financing. State-owned policy banks typically provide loans and, in some cases, grants or equity to large-scale infrastructure and strategic projects, operating with a policy mandate rather than purely commercial return requirements.

• State-owned enterprise: A company owned or controlled by the state that operates on a commercial basis. State-owned enterprises invest in overseas energy projects primarily through equity participation, joint ventures, acquisitions and build-operate arrangements, often combining financing with engineering, procurement, construction and operational capabilities.

• State-owned commercial bank: A commercially oriented bank majority-owned by the state and operating under market-based principles. State-owned commercial banks provide financing through instruments such as corporate loans, project finance and syndicated lending, while remaining aligned with national regulatory and strategic frameworks.

• Government agency: A public institution that provides financial support using government budgetary resources rather than commercial banking operations. Government agencies typically support overseas projects through grants, concessional funding or capital contributions to dedicated programmes and funds.

• State-owned fund: A public institution that provides financial support using government budgetary resources rather than commercial banking operations. Government agencies typically support overseas projects through grants, concessional funding or capital contributions to dedicated programmes and funds.

Currency

• USD: United States dollar

• EUR: Euro

• CNY: Chinese yuan (renminbi)

• Other: This dataset includes examples of financing denominated in Botswana pula (BWP), West African CFA franc (XOF), Nepalese rupee (NPR), Mauritian rupee (MUR), Argentine peso (ARS), Comorian franc (KMF), Central African CFA franc (XAF), Cuban peso (CUP), Seychellois rupee (SCR), Philippine peso (PHP), Sri Lankan rupee (LKR), Tongan paʻanga (TOP), Brazilian real (BRL), Pakistani rupee (PKR), Hong Kong dollar (HKD), South African rand (ZAR), Turkish lira (TRY), Indonesian rupiah (IDR), Malaysian ringgit (MYR), Russian rouble (RUB), Saudi riyal (SAR), Bangladeshi taka (BDT), Costa Rican colón (CRC), Fijian dollar (FJD), Thai baht (THB) and Maldivian rufiyaa (MVR).