![]() ![]() In comparison, the United States spent $6.89 billion on humanitarian assistance in 2017. It set a record at $128.5 million in 2017 notably this comprised less than one percent of the global total for humanitarian spending that year. The newly established China International Development Cooperation Agency ( CIDCA), a Chinese sub-ministry meant to coordinate foreign aid, has stated the Covid-19 response will be China’s “most intensive and wide-ranging emergency humanitarian operation since founding.” China’s humanitarian spending has peaked several times in recent years, demonstrating a willingness of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to increase disaster response spending. Germany, a significant donor state, recently called on China to take a larger role in the humanitarian sector, noting its “economic capacity to provide substantial humanitarian assistance.” In 2017, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recommended China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) add a humanitarian dimension to its far-reaching development agenda.ĭuring the Covid-19 pandemic, experts estimate that China will provide its highest ever amount of humanitarian assistance. Consequently, China’s willingness to contribute to humanitarian responses has been encouraged by some humanitarian stakeholders. Donor states have funded just 35.7 percent of the $9.5 billion required by the United Nations’ Covid-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan. The pandemic has intensified needs while traditional donors are prioritizing domestic response efforts and facing severe economic stagnation. Conflicts are lasting longer, and humanitarian funding shortfalls are commonplace. Prior to the onset of Covid-19, unmet humanitarian needs presented a major challenge for traditional donors. China’s Evolving Role as a Humanitarian Donor ![]() Regardless, given the increased need and funding shortfalls, China’s increased spending is a welcome development, even as Chinese authorities are encouraged to be more transparent about their assistance, coherent in their approach, and coordinated with other donors and recipients. It remains unclear whether this increase represents a temporary spike or a transformational shift in the Chinese approach. The exact figure of Chinese spending on its pandemic assistance is difficult to determine due to China’s donor methodology and opacity surrounding its assistance, but experts assess China is on track to spend more on humanitarian aid in 2020 than ever before. While this assistance may not fit the principled, non-politicized definition of humanitarian aid used by many donors, it reflects how China thinks about short-term humanitarian action in the context of natural disasters and pandemics. China refers to these provisions as humanitarian assistance, differentiating them from existing development programs. Stuff International has partnered with Mike Dethick Partners.In response to the spread of Covid-19, China has deployed medical teams and donated medical equipment to over 150 countries. We have also linked these buildings creatively with the local metro, roads and infrastructure, offering shops, service outlets, restaurants, bars and other community facilities. Besides its financial offices and facilities, we have designed a spherical museum to display a large Ming collection from a private owner (part of our team). To make it a vibrant new centre of the City, Stuff International is offering visitors, workers and residents in this area facilities where they can work, rest and play. We believe the buildings we have designed are iconic, symbolising the rising of a new, successful financial centre, not just in Qingdao, but within the whole China. Qingdao is a stunning second tier City with a population of 7 million, bordering the Yellow Sea, with the biggest container port in the world, with beautiful parks and beaches. Stuff International Design has been asked to design some buildings for the planned new financial district in Qingdao and is seeking to attract global financial institutions to locate here. New Iconic Building Designed for Qingdao Financial District, China
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