In March 2020, few weeks after the COVID outbreak, 8 tons of medical supplies arrived from China in Athens, including
550,000 masks and other sets of protective equipment.

In April 2020, the PPA and China Ocean Shipping Company donated 80,000 masks and 288 disinfectant bottles to Greek municipalities bordering on the port (Piraeus, Keratsini - Drapetsona, Salamina and Perama).

In November 2019, Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences announced the establishment of a Centre for China Studies, in a ceremony held in Maximos Mansion. The ceremony was attended by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and the President of China, Xi Jinping. According to their mission statement, the Academy aims for “the promotion of Chinese culture in Greece and the production of scientific work in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences". The opening took place few days before the official signing of the agreement at Maximos Mansion with a conference titled “Greece-China relations and the Belt and Road Initiative.”

In November 2017, Shenhua Group Corporation Limited, one of China’s largest power producers, through its subsidiary Renewable Energy Sources Shenhua Renewable Co. Ltd, acquired 75% of the shares of four Wind Parks developed by COPELOUZOS GROUP, which are in operation or under construction. This is the first investment of a Chinese company in Wind Parks in Greece. The collaboration of the two Groups will gradually extend to other Wind Parks developed by Copelouzos Group. In addition, a three-party agreement (MoU) was signed between Shenhua, PPC and Copelouzos Group, for the entrance of Shenhua as a partner in the joint company of PPC and Copelouzos Group PPC Solar Solutions.

On December 16, 2016, the State Grid Corporation of China, the world’s largest public utility, purchased a 24-per-cent stake in Greek Independent Power Transmission Operator, following a tender. The agreement was signed by the Chinese company and Greek Public Power Corporation, which by then fully owned the Greek operator. The agreement was endorsed by the European Commission a few months later, in May 2017. In 2019, details of the unpublished agreement came to light. It appeared that despite purchasing a minority stake, State Grid Corporation of China had guaranteed the right of first offer in case Greek Public Power Corporation decides to sell shares in future. The revelation highlighted the Chinese company’s increased role in Greek Independent Power Transmission Operator.

Montenegro’s government bought 201,200 doses of Sinopharm vaccines.

The Serbian embassy in China gathered half a million medical masks, protective suits, gloves, goggles and other protective equipment for Serbia, donated from citizens in Bejing.

In May 2014, China’s largest producer of copper, Jiangxi Copper Corporation, bought 50 per cent of Turkish mining company Nesko Metal, along with its copper mining concession in Albania. In April 2017 the Albanian parliament extended the concession agreement of Nesko Maden San.Tic.A.Ş. until 2043. The concession also added to it the copper enrichment plant in Mjede, Shkodra.

China Ocean Shipping Company's, COSCO, presence at the Port of Piraeus in Greece dates back to 2008 when the company was the provisional winner of a public tender to run container operations at the port. In August 2016, China Ocean Shipping Company Shipping acquired a 51 per cent stake in Piraeus Port Authority, PPA, the largest port in Greece. In September 2021, Greece's parliament approved a new contract that allows the Chinese state-owned shipping giant COSCO to buy an additional 16 per cent stake in the Piraeus Port Authority (PPA), taking its total share of ownership to 67 per cent.

China Everbright Group, a state-owned financial company, in October 2016 purchased all the shares in Albania’s airport as part of a Chinese strategy to invest in the European continent and in line with its One Belt, One Road initiative. In December 2020, the management, development and operation of Tirana International Airport was transfered to Kastrati Group in Albania.