In 2020, 60.5 billion dollars were invested within the scope of the Belt and Road Initiative, while 59.5 billion dollars of investment was realized in 2021. In the year in question, no financing or investment was provided for projects in the field of coal. Financing and investments in the field of green energy amounted to 6.3 billion d and 6.4 billion dollars in the petrol sector. China’s financing and investments have expanded mostly to African and Middle Eastern countries. Iraq has been the largest beneficiary of China’s Belt and Road Initiative investments in 2021.
Between 2013 and 2022, the value of infrastructure projects financed by Chinese-owned banks reached about $890 billion in the countries participating in the Belt and Road Entry. China’s Belt and Enterprise’s largest financier bank is considered the “Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)”. The other relevant Chinese financier bank is the New Development Bank (NDB) or BRICS Bank, which is supported by the BRICS countries. The biggest lenders in these projects are China’s policy banks. These; It is the Export Bank of China (EXIM) and the Development Bank of China (CDB). These two banks are the biggest sources of finance for the Belt and Road Initiative projects.