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“China-West-Developing Markets” Infrastructure Collaboration: Chinese Bilateral Financing, One-Belt-One-Road, Host Government PPP, and Western Capital Markets

  • Date: 15 July 2015, 10:00am - 12:30pm
  • Location: Intercontinental Meeting 1

Organised by

PricewaterhouseCoopers Strategy&, Greater China office

Summary

China’s new foreign policy pillar ‘One Belt One Road’ will mobilize about a trillion dollars of state financing for infrastructure for 65+ countries over the next decade, via a myriad of initiatives including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the Silk Road Fund, and other tools. Many Chinese companies, but also some international private sector players and host governments, will be beneficiaries of this.

However, as large as this amount is, it is only a fraction of the infrastructure demand in the covered area, where transport demand alone for the next 5 years is conservatively estimated at 5 trillion dollars. Increasingly some host governments are keen for public-private-partnerships where the companies bring in their own funding; Chinese companies and governments are likewise aggressively exploring other funding sources, such as low-rate debts in Europe’s capital markets or collaboration with MFIs. This could bring a significant opportunity for western corporations, developing country governments, and international finance players. Multilateral organizations such as the UN could be a platform to bring together project-focused international dialogues across both government financing and private capital markets to address developing country infrastructure need.

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