China Development Bank (CDB) issued 1.64 trillion yuan (about 237 billion U.S. dollars) in infrastructure loans in 2025, the bank announced on Wednesday.
As a leading bank serving infrastructure construction, the CDB granted the loans to infrastructure in five key areas: network-type infrastructure, industrial upgrading, urban development, agriculture and rural areas, and national security.
The loans supported the construction of a number of major projects, including the Shanghai–Chongqing–Chengdu High-speed Railway, as well as information, science and technology infrastructure projects such as the "East Data, West Computing," a megaproject that aims to coordinate the computing capabilities of China's eastern regions with inland western regions, and high-standard farmland construction.
These efforts helped various regions develop new quality productive forces and effectively served to expand effective investment.
Moving forward, the CDB will focus on strategic and landmark major projects, innovate market-based investment and financing models for infrastructure, assist in the renovation and digital-intelligent transformation of traditional infrastructure, and support the moderately forward-looking construction of new infrastructure, the bank said.
China Development Bank issues 1.64 trln yuan loans for infrastructure
