China International Development Cooperation Agency

The China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), branded as China Aid, is the foreign aid and international development agency of the People's Republic of China. It is a deputy ministerial-level agency affiliated with the State Council. 

The China International Development Cooperation Agency is mainly responsible for formulating foreign aid strategic guidelines, plans, and policies, coordinating major foreign aid issues and making recommendations, promoting the reform of foreign aid methods, formulating foreign aid programs and plans, determining foreign aid projects, and supervising and evaluating the implementation.

Establishment 
On March 17, 2018, the first session of the 13th National People's Congress adopted the "Decision of the First Session of the 13th National People's Congress on the Institutional Reform Plan of the State Council" and approved the "Organizational Reform Plan of the State Council". The plan stipulates: "Establish the National International Development Cooperation Agency. Integrate the Ministry of Commerce's foreign aid related responsibilities and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' foreign aid coordination and other responsibilities to establish the National International Development Cooperation Agency as an agency directly under the State Council. The specific implementation of foreign aid will still be carried out by relevant departments. Departments are responsible for division of labor.”

On April 18, 2018, the National Agency for International Development and Cooperation held an unveiling ceremony. The name "National Agency for International Development and Cooperation" with black characters on a white background was unveiled. Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Yang Jiechi, State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi attended the unveiling ceremony and delivered a speech. After the unveiling ceremony, the China International Development Cooperation Agency held its founding meeting.

Responsibilities 
According to the "Regulations on the Functional Configuration, Internal Structure and Staffing of the National Agency for International Development and Cooperation", the Agency for International Development and Cooperation assumes the following functions:

 Responsible for formulating foreign aid strategic guidelines, plans and policies. Take the lead in drafting foreign aid laws and regulations and formulating departmental regulations.
 Responsible for coordinating major foreign aid issues and making recommendations to better serve the country’s overall diplomatic layout and the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative.
 Responsible for researching and promoting the reform of foreign aid methods.
 Responsible for the preparation of foreign aid programs and plans.
 Responsible for determining foreign aid projects, conducting intergovernmental foreign aid negotiations, negotiating and signing intergovernmental aid agreements, and coordinating and resolving major issues with the governments of recipient countries.
 Responsible for supervising and evaluating the implementation of foreign aid projects.
 Organize and carry out international exchanges and cooperation in foreign aid.
 Complete other tasks assigned by the Party Central Committee and the State Council.

Organizational structure 
According to the "Regulations on the Functional Configuration, Internal Organizations and Staffing of the National International Development Cooperation Agency", the internal organization of the International Development Cooperation Agency is at the deputy department–bureau level, and the following organizations are set up:

Departments 

 General Department
 Policy and Planning Department
 Regional First Department
 Regional Second Department
 Supervision and Evaluation Department
 International Cooperation Department
 Institutional Party Committee (Human Resources Department)

Affiliate institution 

 China International Development Cooperation Agency Foreign Aid Service Support Center (China International Development Cooperation Agency Global Development Promotion Center)

See also 
 Chinese foreign aid
 Foreign aid to China
 Exim Bank of China

References

External links 
 

International development agencies
State Council of the People's Republic of China
Chinese foreign aid