The Silk Road Fund is another financial mechanism set up by China to finance the OBOR. The Silk Road Fund is a sovereign fund for which Beijing promised to give $ 40 billion in December 2014.

Its first investments were concentrated in the hydroelectric sector in Pakistan in order to strengthen the Sino-Pakistani economic corridor, an element of the OBOR.

The Silk Road Fund targets programs that aim at increasing trade between China and its neighbors, especially in Central Asia.