Myanmar: Chinese Development Finance Profile, 2000-2022
Date Published
Oct 10, 2025
Authors
JulieAnn Sickell, Brooke Escobar
Publisher
Citation
Sickell, J. and Escobar, B. (2025). Myanmar: The Scale, Scope, and Composition of Chinese Development Finance. Williamsburg, VA: AidData at William & Mary.
Abstract
This country profile of Myanmar provides a detailed overview of the scale, scope, and composition of Chinese state-directed financing to Myanmar between 2000 and 2022. It includes granular information on key trends in China’s loan and grant-financed commitments, its lending portfolio, ESG risks in its infrastructure projects, and contractual safeguards adoption and implementation.
Between 2000 and 2022, China has directed $15.2 billion in loan and grant-financed commitments and 470 projects to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. China channeled to bulk of its aid and non-concessional loan commitments to Myanmar in 2010, when China committed a total of $5.6 billion in official sector financing for mostly big-ticket infrastructure projects—such as the Myingyan No. 1 Steel Mill Construction Project, the Myanmar-China Oil Pipeline, and the Letpadaung Copper Mine
The insights in this profile are derived from AidData’s Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0, and the sources referenced therein. Additional 2022 data collection is based on a forthcoming dataset version launching later this year.
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