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 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 July 2016, Forthnet, a Greek telecommunications company, signed a Cooperation Agreement with China Telecommunications Corporation equipment maker ZTE Corporation to develop a high-speed network in Greece. The agreement followed the visit of the then Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to Shanghai. A year later, in May 2017, Forthnet and ZTE Corporation teamed up with two other Chinese companies, Shanghai Gongbao Business Consulting and KaiXinRong Group, to fund a fibre optic network in the country. The Chinese companies were willing to invest up to 500 million euros for the project.

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.

In November 2019, UK-based NUR Energie, Greece’s Prenecon-Green Energy Holdings, China Energy Construction, Gezhouba Group International Engineering and Zhejiang Supcon Solar Technology signed an agreement of cooperation to construct a 50MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in eastern Crete. The agreement was signed during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Greece. Chinese Business Law Journal listed MINOS as one of the best deals of the year.

The Bar-Boljare highway is Montenegro's leg of a larger highway that will run along its Adriatic coast to the Serbian capital, Belgrade. According to Montenegrin authorities, the first phase of the Matesevo-Boljare should be open by the end of 2021. China Road and Bridge Corporation is building this phase of road, and 85 per cent of this first project is being paid by a nearly 944-million-US-dollar loan from China’s Export-Import Bank. Among the main concerns is the financing of the other phases of the highway, loan repayment, environmental damage etc.

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

In 2015 Bosnia’s Federation entity-controlled coal mining company Banovici, RMU Banovici, signed a contract with China’s Dongfang Electric Corporation to construct a 350 MW thermal power plant. The project, estimated to cost 412 million euros, was to be 85-per-cent financed by several Chinese banks, led by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, ICBC. The project has stalled since.

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.