International donations of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines 2020-2022, by region
Between December 2020 and March 2022, China donated almost 190 million doses of Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines internationally. More than half of all doses were donated to countries in the Asia-Pacific region, while less than four million ended up in European countries. Chinese vaccines were made with conventional technology and were seen as a more cost-efficient solution to the general vaccine shortages in 2021.