Country Assistance Program Evaluation

for the Peoples Republic of China

About the Evaluation

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is conducting a country assistance program evaluation
(CAPE) for the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). The CAPE will review performance and
experience from loans, technical assistance and other support provided by ADB to PRC during
the period 20062014 to draw lessons for further improvement in the coming years. The CAPE
will thus provide inputs to the country partnership strategy (CPS) between ADB and PRC for the
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five year plan period 20162020.

The CAPE comes at a time when PRC has been rapidly transformed into an upper middle-
income country that will need to act preemptively to address new challenges to sustain growth
and avoid the middle-income trap. More than financial support for investment projects, value
addition through innovation, risk management, knowledge creation and sharing will be critical.
As an inter-governmental organization, ADB is well placed to bring in best-practices and
knowledge from across the Asia and Pacific region to introduce innovation and risk
management through policy and regulation, institutional arrangements and capacity
development, and new technologies.
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Likewise, ADB is well positioned to support regional
cooperation and engage with PRC government on matters that relate to global and regional
public goods.

The evaluation will examine the extent to which ADB engagement met the objectives of country
partnership strategies since 2006. One of the key objectives of the CAPE is to focus on
innovation and knowledge aspects of ADB engagement, and gauge how ADB has contributed to
the PRC objectives of balanced, equitable and sustained growth. The CAPE will also address
ADBs role in engaging with PRC on matters related to regional and global public goods such as
public health, financial stability and climate change. An emphasis on such issues will contribute
to an objective assessment of the performance of ADB support to PRC, and draw forward-
looking lessons and make recommendations for the next CPS.

About the CAPE Mission

The PRC Ministry of Finance granted approval for the CAPE team to visit PRC. Accordingly, the
CAPE team will hold meetings in PRC from 3 to 19 November 2014. In view of the large
portfolio of ADB engagement, the CAPE team comprises experts in all sectors of ADB
engagement, including agriculture, education, energy, environment, finance, health, public
financial management, social protection, transport, urban and water sectors. The sector
specialists on the CAPE team will hold separate meetings simultaneously with various PRC
agencies in Beijing, Guangxi, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Tianjin, Xinjiang and Yunnan from 3 to 19
November.

In addition, the PRC Ministry of Finance is also helping the CAPE team to administer a
questionnaire to all relevant ministries and government agencies.



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Although it is acknowledged that PRC would like to access knowledge and information on development successes
and failures in countries outside the Asia and Pacific region.