BEIJING - China's Information Office of the State Council issued a white paper on China's foreign aid here Thursday. Following is the full text:

China's Foreign Aid

Information Office of the State Council

The People's Republic of China

April 2011, Beijing

Preface

I. Foreign Aid Policy

II. Financial Resources for Foreign Aid

III. Forms of Foreign Aid

IV. Distribution of Foreign Aid

V. Management of Foreign Aid

VI. International Cooperation in Foreign Aid

Conclusion

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Appendix IV

Appendix V

Appendix VI

Preface

China is a developing country. Over the years, while focusing on its own development, China has been providing aid to the best of its ability to other developing countries with economic difficulties, and fulfilling its due international obligations.

In the 1950s, soon after the founding of the People's Republic of China, although it was short of funds and materials, China began to provide economic aid and technical assistance to other countries, and gradually expanded the scope of such aid. Since China adopted the reform and opening-up policies in the late 1970s, its economy has been developing rapidly, with the overall national strength growing notably. However, China remains a developing country with a low per-capita income and a large poverty-stricken population. In spite of this, China has been doing its best to provide foreign aid, to help recipient countries to strengthen their self-development capacity, enrich and improve their peoples' livelihood, and promote their economic growth and social progress. Through foreign aid, China has consolidated friendly relations and economic and trade cooperation with other developing countries, promoted South-South cooperation and contributed to the common development of mankind.

Adhering to equality and mutual benefit, stressing substantial results, and keeping pace with the times without imposing any political conditions on recipient countries, China's foreign aid has emerged as a model with its own characteristics.