Introduction

China's overseas devel ment programme has a long history, but is significantly expanded after the belton road initiative was launched in 20 13. debates have emerged among policy makers, scholars and journalists about the objectives and the impacts of china's lending and grant giving activities. Our guest to day is doctor bradley parks who collaborated with a large team of experts to evaluate china's development programms through rigorous evidence. The result of their research is presented in a book called banking on be jing,. It relies on a data set that captures 13 thousand 427 projects across 165 countries.