This book is a collection of 15 case studies on Chinas foreign aid and economic cooperation with developing countries. Each case introduces the general information of a Chinas project, analyzes its features and impacts, and especially focuses on analysis of the characteristics of Chinas foreign aid under South-South Cooperation framework, which shows the differences of foreign aid by emerging economies from that by traditional donors in aid ideology, principles, practices, and effects. This book is one of the research projects by China International Development Research Network (CIDRN), as part of its contribution to the activities under the Network of Southern Think-tanks (NeST).

Meibo Huang is Director and Professor in International Development Cooperation Academy of Shanghai University of International Business and Economics. She is a deputy Secretary General of the China Society of World Economics and a key member of the China International Development Research Network (CIDRN). Dr. Huangs current research focuses on Chinese development cooperation, Chinese development financing and Chinese trade and investment in Africa.

Xiuli Xu is Professor and Deputy Dean of China Institute for South-South Cooperation in Agriculture (CISSCA)/ China Belt and Road Institute for Agricultural Cooperation (BRIAC) at China Agricultural University. She is a key member of China International Development Research Network (CIDRN) . Her main research interests are Chinas overseas investment and foreign aid, evolution of development thinking, and developmental state building. She is the initiator of the public knowledge platform: IDT (International Development Times), which disseminates frontier debates about development studies in China.

Xiaojing Mao is a senior research fellow and Deputy Director of the Institute of International Development Cooperation, CAITEC, the think-tank affiliate to the Ministry of Commerce of China. Her research focuses on international development cooperation and Chinas foreign aid policies. She has participated in many important aid policy studies entrusted by the Ministry of Commerce, including White Papers on Chinas Foreign Aid and on Chinas Mid- and Long-term Country Programs.

1. Introduction: SouthSouth cooperation and Chinese foreign aid.- 2. Development and characteristics of Chinas foreign aid: the TanzaniaZambia Railway.- 3. A landmark in ChinaAfrica friendship: the China-aided African Union Conference Center.- 4. From micro-analysis to macro-perspective of Chinas foreign aid: Madagascars General Hospital project.- 5. Chinese foreign humanitarian assistance: Myanmars 2015 floods.- 6. Chinas aid to Africas fight against Ebola.- 7. A blend of hard and soft assistance: Chinas aid to Cambodia.- 8. Technology and knowledge transfer: a case study of Chinas Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center in the United Republic of Tanzania.- 9. Peer-to-peer sharing in SouthSouth cooperation: from Village-based Learning Center to ChinaTanzania Joint Learning Center.- 10. Chinas agricultural technical cooperation: a case study on juncao aid projects in Papua New Guinea and Fiji.- 11. The ChinaUganda SouthSouth cooperation project under FAOs Food Security Framework.- 12. Agricultural trilateral cooperation: a case study of the FAO + China + host country model.- 13. The innovative aid mode of agriculture going global to promote investment: CGCOC and Jiangxi Ganliang.- 14. Aid + investment: the sustainable development approach of Chinas agricultural aid project in Mozambique.- 15. Chinas SouthSouth development cooperation in practice: China and Ethiopias industrial parks.- 16. Construction of the ZambiaChina Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone and SouthSouth cooperation.