Policies and programs of economic aid of the People’s Republic of China to foreign states (1978-2024)

The relevance of this study is due to, first, the rapid increase in the influence of the PRC on the international arena, caused by significant economic growth of the state as a result of the implementation of the reform and opening-up of Deng Xiaoping. The object of the study is economic aid of the People’s Republic of China to foreign states. The subject of this study is China’s economic aid policies and programmes to foreign states (1978–2024). The main task of this study is to analyze the development of economic aid of the People’s Republic of China (1978–2024). In the course of the study, the author faced the following tasks: establishment of theoretical foundations of economic aid policy of the People’s Republic of China, identification of key changes of theoretical foundations of economic aid of the People’s Republic of China, definition of the key objectives and directions of economic aid policy of the People’s Republic of China, establishment of the geographic characteristics of economic aid to foreign states depending on the region of its provision, identification of the key features of economic aid of the People’s Republic of China to foreign countries. This study is based on the theory of neo-liberalism. The main conclusions of the study are the establishment of a significant theoretical change in the policy of providing economic aid to foreign states; definition of key objectives of economic aid; definition of the main directions of economic aid of the People’s Republic of China and their specifics; identification of the key features of economic aid of the People’s Republic of China to foreign countries. The scientific novelty of this study is based on the identification and analysis of paradigm changes in economic aid of the People’s Republic of China to foreign states.