On February 13, 2015, China opened its first Confucius Institute in Montenegro at the University of Montenegro. The Institute was formed through the Montenegrin University's partnership with China’s Changsha University of Science & Technology. Its objective is to promote Chinese culture and language, improve the understanding of China among locals and connect all individuals and institutions in Montenegro engaged in Chinese language and culture.

A Chinese Export-Import Bank loan will finance 85 per cent of the construction of 450 MW Block 7 of the Tuzla Thermal Power Plant, worth 722 million euro. It will be built by China's Gezhouba Group Company and Guangdong Electric Power Design Institute.

In October 2019, Albanian Radio and Television, RTSH, signed an agreement with the China National Radio and Television Administration to broadcast a documentary on China's governance - China: Time of Xi and a feature film, Kids of Wuzhumuqin Town. The two sides agreed to exchange television productions, documentaries and cartoons, as well as staff training.

The Instituti Konfuci Center of the Confucius Institute, HANBAN, was established at the University of Tirana in 2013, following an agreement signed by University of Tirana and the Center of Confucius Institute, China, CLEC, as well as the University of Languages Beijing Foreign, BFSU. The main objective is the promotion of the Chinese language and culture. The institute is funded by Beijing University. Tirana University provides two classrooms and office facilities.

Athens Business Confucius Institute was established in 2009 by the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) in cooperation with the University of International Business and Economics, UIBE, in Beijing and the Office of Chinese Language Council International, HANBAN. It offers Chinese language lessons, facilitates students exchanges, provides scholarships for Chinese language studies in Chinese Universities, and holds trainings, cultural events and seminars/workshops on Chinese socioeconomic and business environment. The Institute dubs itself a brigde “between Greece and China in the domain of education, culture and business”, and one of its main goals is “the promotion of the Chinese language and culture in Greece”.

China donated nine engineering vehicles to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s armed forces.

The Confucius Institute at Sarajevo University was opened in 2015. It includes an elective Chinese language program, a popular calligraphy class, which also includes subjects on Chinese culture.
 

The Confucius Institute at Banja Luka University was opened in 2018. It offers classes in the Chinese language, calligraphy, traditions, tea rituals, cooking, and Tai Chi.

China’s Red Cross donated 90,000 euro to alleviate the damage done by the November 2019 earthquake that shook the northwest of Albania.

The contractor for Lot 1, the Pocitelj interchange – the beginning of the Pocitelj bridge and the end of the Pocitelj bridge – the Zvirovici interchange, is China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited and the contract value is 56,522,840.50 euro excluding VAT. The contractor for Lot 2, the Pocitelj Bridge, is a consortium consisting of Azvirt Limited Liability Company from Azerbaijan, Sinohydro Corporation Limited and Powerchina Roadbridge Group Co. Ltd., both of which are from China, and the total value of the construction works for the Počitelj Bridge is 28,114,889.53 euro excluding VAT.