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China's global development spending

China's spending on global development projects is approaching $1 trillion since the turn of the century, making Beijing one of the world's most sought-after financiers. Over an 18-year-period beginning in 2000, China spent at least $843 billion on more than 13,000 projects across 165 countries, according to a database by the AidData research lab at William & Mary, a public university in Virginia.

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