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Video | 24 May 2022
ADB Develops Innovative Flash Flood Early Warning Systems in the People’s Republic of China
Floods are the costliest natural hazard-induced disaster in the People’s Republic of China. To respond to this, ADB in 2018 piloted innovative flash flood disaster early warning systems in two provinces of the PRC.
Op-Ed / Opinion | 20 April 2022
FAR Sight Needed to Address Agricultural Challenges - Niu Zhiming
Ensuring a constant level of grain production in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) while maintaining the country’s gains in eliminating poverty are twin policy priorities in the State Council Decree for Comprehensive Promotion of Rural Vitalization, the country’s most prominent policy statement for 2022. These priorities are consistent with various other government visions for the coming years, including the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, and would also contribute significantly to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Event | 20 April 2022
East Asia Forum 2022: Decarbonizing Asia and the Pacific - Experience from East Asia
The forum on 20 April 2022 highlights East Asia’s efforts in providing innovative and sustainable solutions to climate change, and provides an opportunity to exchange ideas and practices in climate transition in Asia and the Pacific.

Asian Development Blog | 24 May 2022
Developing Countries Should Find Their Own Path for Skills Development and Training
Less developed countries need not emulate wealthier ones when establishing their technical and vocational training systems.

Support for the Yangtze River Economic Belt

Under its Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) Framework, ADB will provide around $2 billion over 2018-2020 to support integrated economic and environmental development in the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River. As one of the PRC's three economic growth areas, the YREB is key to helping the PRC achieve its goals of inclusive and sustainable growth and xiao kang, or a moderately prosperous society.

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Support for the Yangtze River Economic Belt

ADB's Yangtze River Economic Belt Framework makes targeted, integrated, and high impact investments in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River in the People's Republic of China. The framework targets ecological restoration and green development in this crucial part of the PRC.

Lending Projects

Non-lending Projects

Integrating Flood and Environmental Risk Management: Principles and Practices

Eco-Compensation for Watershed Services in the People's Republic of China

Toward a National Eco-Compensation Regulation in the People's Republic of China

Payments for Ecological Services and Eco-Compensation: Practices and Innovations in the People's Republic of China

Data: People's Republic of China ADB and the PRC: Fact Sheet

Economic Forecast

GDP forecasts are based on ADB's flagship publication, the Asian Development Outlook. Updated four times a year, it analyzes economic and development issues in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Poverty in the People's Republic of China

Development indicators for the People's Republic of China, including a selection of economic, environmental, and social indicators used globally to track progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.

Results of ADB-Supported Operations

Results achieved are aggregate amounts of outputs and outcomes from operations reported in project completion reports and extended annual review reports circulated for the year.

Projects Cofinanced

Cofinancing operations enable ADB’s financing partners, governments or their agencies, multilateral financing institutions, and commercial organizations to participate in financing ADB projects. Additional funds are provided in the form of official loans and grants, technical assistance, other concessional financing, and commercial cofinancing such as B loans, risk transfer arrangements, parallel loans and equity, guarantee cofinancing, and cofinancing for transactions under ADB’s Trade Finance Program.

People's Republic of China: Cofinancing

Project Performance, 2000-2018

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ADB Projects in the People's Republic of China

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Project Results

Project Result / Case Study | 19 April 2022
Upgraded Municipal Services Improve Living Conditions in Townships of Liaoning, People's Republic of China
ADB provided a loan of $150 million for a project to improve sanitation, heating, and transport services in key townships in Liaoning, People's Republic of China.
Project Result / Case Study | 1 March 2022
In Heilongjiang, PRC, Modernizing of Heat Sources Spreads Warmth and Cuts Pollution
For decades, Heilongjiang Province depended heavily on out-of-date, inefficient boilers that were a major cause of air pollution and respiratory diseases. An ADB project installed efficient heating sources that created a safer and more comfortable domestic environment while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants.
Project Result / Case Study | 24 November 2021
People's Republic of China: Three Cities of Guangxi Realizing Their Potential in Regional Networks
An ADB project improved living conditions in three cities in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, to help unlock their potential as strategic regional transport corridors.