Yet with current funding limitations, Hu hopes to get private companies and organizations more deeply involved in providing foreign economic assistance. He has been pushing the idea of "foreign-affairs BOT." (BOT stands for Build-Operate-Transfer, a method of getting the private sector to take over the operation of public infrastructure projects.)
但在外交預算有限的情況下，胡志強也提出「外交 BOT」的主張－－由民間企業、團體深度參與外交部對邦交國的援助行動。