Understanding China’s Global Power

The Global China Initiative at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) introduces a new interactive dataset that tracks Chinese overseas finance in the electric power sector. Based on data compiled from GDP Center projects, the China’s Global Power Database (CGP) tracks and displays the capacity, technology, local and national location, and projected carbon emissions of power plants financed through China’s two global policy banks and foreign direct investment (Gallagher et al, 2018; Li et al, 2020; Chen et al, 2020).

Between 2000 and 2018, Chinese companies and policy banks have invested in 777 power plants overseas at 186.5GW of generation capacity across 83 countries in the world. Of this, 106.2GW is already online, with the remainder planned into the future.

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