The Republic of Congo and the People's Republic of China established diplomatic relations on February 22, 1964.

This bilateral cooperation is governed by several agreements, among which the Agreement for Economic and Technical Cooperation, signed on October 2, 1964 in Beijing, the Agreement establishing the Great Joint Commission for Cooperation, signed on May 27, 1982 in Beijing and the strategic partnership concluded on June 19, 2006 in Brazzaville.

The Chinese Export and Import bank (Exim Bank) has worked for more than a decade with the Republic of Congo in the construction of several infrastructure projects.

These include:

• Pointe-Noire / Brazzaville road:

  537 km long, the national road N° 1, one of the great challenges of the 2nd seven-year term of the President of the Republic, is the backbone of the national economy and the hub of the country's transport network. Fruit of Congo-China strategic partnership, the RN1 was built in two phases, namely the Pointe-Noire/Dolisie section (160 km) and the Dolisie/Brazzaville phase (375km).

• Owando-Makoua-Mambili-Ouesso road

  It is the last segment of the national road N° 2 which connects the two capitals, political (Brazzaville) and economic (Pointe-Noire) to the extreme north of the country, with the connection to several cities.

• Obouya-Okoyo-Lékéty-Gabon border road

  The Republics of Congo and Gabon were linked, since 2014, by a tarred road. A result of the will of the two governments, this 90 km long road is a link in the corridor going from Libreville in Gabon to Bangui in the Central African Republic. Other countries in the sub-region will also benefit from this road, like the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

• Modernization and maintenance of terminal facilities at Maya-Maya airport

  The modernized Maya-Maya platform is the result of the strategic partnership between Congo and China. The creation of this airport platform created better working conditions for operating staff and responded to the processing of the flow of passengers, which kept increasing.

• Construction of terminal facilities at Ollombo Airport

  Built in the Plateaux department, 450 km north of Brazzaville, Ollombo International Airport is a big airport intended for wide-body aircraft and 747 aircraft of the 400 series.

• Alima Palace

  With its 116 luxury rooms and 6 high-end suites, the 5-star Alima Palace hotel stands majestically at the entrance of the city of Oyo. It is part of the development of the tourism and leisure industry in order to serve as a milestone in a diversified economy that generates sustainable income and jobs.

• Twin towers of Mpila  

  Built on an area of 121.537m², of which 4.537m² is infrastructure, the twin towers of Mpila connected, by a 4-storey appendix, from the ground floor to the 3rd floor. It consists of two identical buildings of 30 storeys each, the first of which houses offices and the second a hotel and apartments.

  The hotel and apartment tower will have a revolving restaurant on the 28th and 29th floors and 168 rooms, including standard rooms, ministerial and presidential suites with 48 apartments. To the two towers shall be added clubs, stores; halls for meetings, games, press conferences and many other amenities worthy of a building of this standing.

• Imboulou hydroelectric dam

  The 120-megawatt hydroelectric dam is one of the flagship projects in the energy sector. Since 2002, the President of the Republic has worked to strengthen the production, transport and distribution of electrical energy across the country.

• Energy transport network associated with the Imboulou power plant

  Consisting of a national dispatching center of 7 THT transformation stations; 220Kv transmission lines, 756km long and 110Kv, 91km long, as well as 18 30Kv stations; 30Kv lines and 20Kv cables with a total length of 375km. The realization of this project made it possible to supply electricity to a large part of the country connecting the different departments of Congo.

• Liouesso hydroelectric dam

  This power plant, located in the district of Mokéko, in the department of Sangha, is composed, amongst others, of a water outlet, the spillway and its auxiliaries, the hydraulic plant and tailrace, the monitoring and control system, the 110KV switching station, an annex building, the access road to the power plant, and finally an operating site. It supplies electricity the city of Ouesso and its surrounding localities with the construction of its adjoining lines.

• rehabilitation of EHV transmission network infrastructure between Pointe-Noire and Brazzaville

  The energy boulevard is intended to serve as a base for a national interconnected network enabling optimized traffic between the means of production and transport on the one hand and the national energy market on the other hand.

  The project has two phases: 

  • The first concerns the rehabilitation, extension and modernization of very high voltage transformer plants between Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire via Mindouli and Loudima.
  • The second concerns the construction, rehabilitation and reconstruction of roads between Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire, passing through Mindouli and Loudima.

• Port of Oyo

  Located in the department of Cuvette, the infrastructure not only facilitates transport on the national road no. 2, but also enables the smooth transfer of production from the north of the country to Brazzaville and beyond the Atlantic Ocean.

• Rehabilitation and extension of the Djiri drinking water treatment plant

  It is an integrative project on the reinforcement of the drinking water supply system of Brazzaville from the Djiri river. It consists of three components, namely the extension of the Djiri water plant with an additional treated water production capacity of five thousand two hundred and fifty (5.250) m3 per hour, the rehabilitation of the existing Djiri water plant with a capacity of two thousand two hundred and fifty (2.250) m3 per hour and the reinforcement of the treated water distribution network.

• Low-cost housing

  This project, which involved the 1000 houses in Kintélé, the houses in Camp August 15 and the 242 houses in Mpila, was extended to Mpila, in the aftermath of the March 4, 2012 tragedy, with the execution of other housing projects as part of the reconstruction of the affected area.

• Edith Lucie Bongo Ondimba Hospital

  Open to the public on March 10, 2017, this specialized health facility aims at offering new healthcare conditions to the people of Congo, in an environment more adapted to their needs. This sub-regional hospital has several departments: administration, general medicine, surgery, cardiology, ophthalmology, ENT, otolaryngology, urology, pharmacy, morgue, radiology, laboratory.