Overseas Project Financing And Export Credit Support

This article probe into how officially supported export credits offer the finance support under the project financing from the characteristics of the export credits and project financing, export credits supporting project financing as well as the insufficiency and suggestions of the export credits support for outside boundary project financing by our government.The main body is composed of 6 parts: the first 2 parts give a detailed introduction of the business of export credits and project financing. Moreover it analyses their own characteristics and advantages comparing the export credits and project financing with ordinary trade finance. In this part it also mainly deals with the participants of project financing, the structure of finance and kinds of the finance modules; The 3 and 4 parts further analyze, according to a case under operation, that how export credits can be designed to satisfy the finance module that projects need and plays a special role supported by government on the basis of project structure and characteristics of the finance. the 5 and 6 parts put forward the relevant countermoves and suggestions of the inadequacy that in our country the export credits now can not well support the outside boundary finance through the problems in real business. In this article, a typical project financing case from The Export-Import Bank of China was introduced. A thorough analyze about it was done in order to make the readers have a deep understanding. For the sake of respecting the protection of commercial secret, this case has been changed a little in the area of numbers and contents without misunderstanding.The most important point of this article is that from the perspective of banks, through a case, export credits and project financing are combined. The theory linked with the practice. And some special categories are illustrated rigorously and clearly in this article. There are more books concerned with export credits and project financing, but few are two of them together. At present there are not so many cases that are being real operated. This article attempt to make a systematic summary of the experience and theories about the export credits and project financing through 7 years of taking up export credits and participating the trade finance and management. How to make business innovation and breakthrough, also how to make export credits play a more important role under the developing of proexport economy in our country, this is what I have been studying at work as well. I hope that my point of view in this article can be shared anddiscussed so that I could further and develop my knowledge in this area.