The first phase of this project included, among others, the revitalisation and desulphurisation of the exisiting B1 and B2 blocks of Kostolac thermal power plant. Air pollution is still big concern for residents living in area near Kostolac.

Mei Ta invested 60 million euros in a car parts factory in Obrenovac in 2014.

Power Construction Corporation of China Ltd., Azerbaijan’s Azvirt and a consortium of local companies are building the Bubanj Potok bypass, which costs around 227 million euro. Export-Import Bank of China loan finances 85 per cent of the project.

In 2014, the new Kostolac B3 block with a capacity of 350 MW, and the intention to increase its capacity of the Drmno surface mine to 12 million tonnes per year, was funded by a China ExIm Bank loan. Serbia was widely critised for investing in dirty energy despite its pledge to decrease its CO2 emissions. It is unclear when the construction will be completed.

Export-Import Bank of China is supplying a 225.2 -million-euro loan for construction of the Obrenovac-Ljig Highway. The China-based company Shandong is building the highway.

In April 2019, the University of Mostar and Huawei Technologies signed a cooperation agreement on new technologies and telecommunications in the areas of scientific research and the transfer and application of knowledge and technologies.

Chinese company Nuchtech donated 14,000 N95 protective masks, two KD doors with a temperature metre, five quarantine units and 15 special cameras for measuring body temperature to the Serbian Ministry of the Interior.

In April 2016, China's Hebei Iron & Steel Group signed a 46-million-euro agreement to buy Serbia’s Zelezara Smederevo steel plant. The agreement was signed by Hebei Chairman Yu Yong at ceremony attended by the Serbian President (at that time Prime Minister) Aleksandar Vucic and hundreds of workers and dignitaries, which ended with fireworks. The steel mill has drawn criticism from citizens of Smederevo over its effects on the environment.

China donated 23 school buses to North Macedonia, made by the Chinese company Yutong, and delivered them in November 2011.

In April 2020, the Chinese embassy donated 30,000 euros to North Macedonia’s Ministry of Health to help it deal with the coronavirus pandemic.