Highlights of China-UK economic and trade ties

3. AIIB membership

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Britain led the way for other Western countries to join the China-proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on Mar. 12, 2015.

It was the bank's first Western founding member.

The British government decided to contribute 50 million U.S. dollars to the bank's project preparation special fund in December of 2017.