四国经济援助

The bar chart shows three aspects that the financial support covered in 1974 and 2014 and the table presents how much financial aid was given to four countries in these two years.

From the bar chart we can see that the monetary support mostly was distributed to medicine with 80 million in 1974. Catering and finance took up the same amount with about 70 million. By 2014, the amount of money for supporting catering had drastically decreased by 80% compared with the figure in 1974 while finance witnessed a slight decrease by 5 million.

According to the table, in 1974, South Africa received the highest amount of monetary support with 65 million, followed by China with 62 million. Thailand received the least with 48 million. In 2014, China became the country that had the lowest amount of financial aid (6 million) whereas South Africa gained 42 million ranking as the top one again.

All in all, it is clear that all four countries received much less monetary support in 2014, especially China. As for how the money was used, finance and medicine were invested with most of the financial support.