金砖国家中的巴西、印度、俄罗斯和南非的外交支出呈增加的趋势。但它们的外交支出使用方向偏重不同,俄罗斯主要是对驻外机构的支出,印度则偏重技术和经济合作费用、驻外使领馆和使团支出、特殊外交支出或对外国政府的贷款,南非重视加强与其他国家的关系,外交支出主要偏重国际关系费用、行政管理费用和国际转移支付费用,巴西外交支出使用方向不太明确。总体而言,金砖国家的外交支出规模偏小、在其国内生产总值中的比例偏低。与经济发展相伴随,金砖国家外交普遍处在扩张阶段,核心是需要加强外交能力建设,但受制于自身国力及外交工作人员数量的不足和机构的官僚化,金砖国家的外交能力总体并不乐观。为此,金砖国家在增加外交支出的同时,需要变革其外交体制机制,以适应实现外交目标的需要。 Diplomatic spending in BRIC countries Brazil, India, Russia and South Africa is on the rise. However, their diplomatic spending is heavily biased. Russia mainly spends on foreign agencies. India places emphasis on technical and economic cooperation costs, spending on diplomatic and consular missions abroad, special diplomatic expenditures or loans to foreign governments. South Africa Emphasis on strengthening relations with other countries, the main emphasis on diplomatic spending on international relations costs, administrative costs and international transfer payments, the direction of Brazil’s diplomatic spending is not clear. Overall, the BRICS diplomacy is modest in size and low in its gross domestic product. Accompanied by economic development, BRICS diplomacy is generally in the expansion stage, the core is the need to strengthen diplomatic capacity building, subject to its own national strength and the lack of diplomatic staff and institutional bureaucracy, the overall diplomatic capacity of BRICS countries and not optimistic. Therefore, while increasing their diplomatic expenditures, the BRICS countries need to change their diplomatic institutional mechanisms to meet the needs of achieving their diplomatic goals.