From 2000 to 2011, there are approximately 34 Chinese official development finance projects identified in Côte d'Ivoire through various media reports.[2] These projects range from a $114 million loan from Export-ImportBank of China at two-percent interest over 20 years to finance a motorway construction project linkingAbidjan toGrand-Bassam,[3] to an 18 million EUR debt relief in 2007.[4]
According to Xavier Aurégan, PhD at theFrench Institute of Geopolitics,[5] from 1983 to 2013, there are approximately 174 Chinese official development finance projects in Côte d'Ivoire.[6]Of these 174 official development finance projects, 112 are approximately 12 billion euros. The most expensive project is the urban center in Abidjan (8.9 billioneuros).In addition, infrastructure accounted for 86% of the Chinese public assistance.The majority of Chinese aid is granted during the Ivorian political crisis between 2002 and 2010. Under Laurent Gbagbo, 69% of aid is thus assigned.[7]
Chinese projects in Ivory Coast from 1983 to 2013A Chinese Clinic offering traditional Chinese medicine inFerkessédougou
In Abidjan, Chinese nationals are about 2500. They mainly occur in the trade, Adjamé, or restoration, Cocody. They created about 100 companies.[8]
Ivory Coast follows theone China principle. It recognizes the People's Republic of China as the sole government of China andTaiwan as an integral part of China's territory, and supports all efforts by the PRC to "achievenational reunification". It also considersHong Kong,Xinjiang andTibet to be China's internal affairs.[9]
^Austin Strange, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher, and Vijaya Ramachandran. 2013. China’s Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection. CGD Working Paper 323. Washington DC: Center for Global Development.[1]
^Strange, Parks, Tierney, Fuchs, Dreher, and Ramachandran, China’s Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection.http://aiddatachina.org/projects/865
^Aurégan, Xavier, Représentations, « intégrations » et organisations : les enjeux des dynamiques migratoires chinoises à Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire).http://www.cairn.info/revue-monde-chinois-2013-1-p-55.htm. Aurégan, Xavier, Les « communautés » chinoises en Côte d’Ivoire : analyse comparative de l’hétérogénéité des acteurs, de leur intégration et des territoires en Afrique de l’Ouest, Working Paper, Institut Français de Géopolitique, février 2012, 26 p.http://geopolitique.hypotheses.org/122
