Infographic: China’s Foreign Aid during COVID-19 Pandemic (4)——Funding Multilateral Mechanisms and Organizations

Responding to the fundraising calls of the UN and WHO, China donated US$50 million to the WHO, and announced a US$50 million contribution to the UN COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan. It also earmarked US$10 million in its Poverty Reduction and Regional Cooperation Fund to support the Asian Development Bank’s efforts to help member countries address the COVID-19 challenge, and donated US$2 million worth of materials to the International Atomic Energy Agency to support its anti-epidemic effort. The Chinese government is also working with the UN to set up a global humanitarian response depot and hub in China.

(Source: Xinhua, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and White Paper of "China's International Development Cooperation in the New Era")