简介： 当前，全球范围内新一轮能源革命已然兴起。我国在经济增速趋缓、资源环境约束趋紧的新常态下，推动能源革命势在必行、刻不容缓。本书以能源消费转型为主线，系统阐述了能源消费研究的相关理论及其应用，深入探讨了全球能源转型的轨迹、趋势和特征，国外主要国家能源转型的实践和经验借鉴，以及我国能源转型面临的形势、阶段性特征、发展方向和实施路径，从理论和实证层面分析能源消费转型对于社会进步、经济发展和环境保护的影响，并分别提出能源与社会、经济和环境协调发展的路径选择。本书以全方位视角探析了能源消费转型问题，力求推动能源消费向绿色、低碳、可持续的方向发展，最终实现人与自然的和谐共生。

简介： 2017年世界经济出现了超预期复苏，美国经济的基本面决定了美联储将适时推进缩表和加息，逐步实现货币政策正常化。2017年我国经济在国际经济复苏加快的背景下，供给侧结构性改革效果显现，经济继续保持稳中向好态势。2018年总体补库存力度减弱，货币供应速度减缓，环保督查力度加大，房地产投资和基建投资面临下行压力；但国际经济可能继续保持复苏，出口仍保持增长态势，民间投资有望继续保持平稳增长。短期经济波动不会改变经济韧性加强的显著特征。2018年是党的十九大胜利召开后新时代的开端，应抓住时机，继续坚持稳中求进的总基调，突出稳中有为，在保证国内需求基本平稳的前提下，深化新时代供给侧结构性改革，化解经济中潜藏的风险，提高经济发展质量，使经济运行保持在合理区间，延续经济稳中向好的局面。

简介： 2010年，中国人均国民收入（GNI）达到4035美元，成功地跨过了世界银行关于中上等收入国家的界定标准（3975美元）的门槛，跻身于中上等收入国家行列。而中国经济能否保持中高速增长，迈向中高端发展，成为中国跨越“中等收入陷阱”的关键。本书借助两大体系进行分析，一大体系是一国经济如何通过持续的结构性变革来提升劳动生产率和全要素贡献率来迈向中高端发展；另一大体系是结合国际经验数据，讨论中国未来进入中高速阶段，特别是通过区域追赶特征进行统计分析和推断。主要得到了以下结论：（1）中国经济中长期增长路径中增长加速和增长减缓过程较为频繁，虽然2015年再次出现增长减缓拐点，结构性减速特征明显，但是，中国经济依然较为稳定，预计2016—2017年，经济增长仍然保持在6.5%以上的水平、“十三五”规划期间，保持在6.5%左右的增长是可预期的。（2）中国经济迈向中高端发展需要持续的效率提升仍是严峻的挑战。中国经济迈入中高端发展的关键是“两个效率提升”。第一个效率提升是劳动生产率的提高。劳动生产率的增长速度直接决定了工资水平提升速度，没有劳动生产率的提升，就难以进行人力资本深化。第二个效率提升是全要素生

简介： 河南是全国重要的经济大省和新兴工业大省，正处于经济结构转型的关键时期。郑洛新国家自主创新示范区则是河南继国家粮食生产核心区、中原经济区、郑州航空港经济综合实验区之后，党中央、国务院赋予河南的又一重大战略，是河南实施创新驱动发展战略的重大机遇和重要实践。加快推动郑洛新国家自主创新示范区建设，制定合理的战略思路、发展路径等，将成为河南省经济社会发展的新动力、新引擎，对推动全省打好“四张牌”，全面实现转型升级具有重要意义。本书通过研究国家自主创新示范区建设的理论基础、演化路径，并对中东部国家自主创新示范区进行比较研究，进而明确提出郑洛新国家自主创新示范区战略定位、发展路径、创新能力、产业转型升级、对外开放、体制机制创新、人才保障创新以及郑州、洛阳和新乡自创区的发展路径。

简介： 粤港澳历来联系紧密，在中国近代史上具有独特的地位和作用。开展对粤港澳经济史的研究，可以深化香港、澳门历史的研究，也可丰富中国近代史、广东地方史、华侨华人史的内容。本书收录的多篇论文分别从粤港澳华商的发展与近代世界、粤港澳对外贸易与国内外市场、重要历史人物与粤港澳地方经济社会三个方面进行了深入探讨，对其中一些重大事件和问题做了全新的梳理，并取得了原创性的成果。本书内容丰富，史料翔实，论证充分，具有较高的学术质量。本书既总结历史经验、探寻社会经济发展的客观规律，亦对中国近代社会经济史和岭南区域史等领域的研究有较大参考价值。

简介： From both what happened in the United States and Europe and what the political economy perspective of the world would expect，anyone may predict a weakening trend of the economic globalization in at least the near future. That is，the predictable politics and economic policies in the western countries，which have been the major drivers of the previous wave of globalization，tend to drive down the economic globalization，alongside nationalism and populism dominate the policy-making of international trade and investment flows in a quite few countries.That trend does not necessarily mean a catastrophe for China’s economic growth，though it has benefited from the previous economic globalization. China will accomplish its goals of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects in 2020 and realizing its great rejuvenation in 2050，no matter what happens to the globalization. China，however，does hope that there will be a sound environment of international trade，capital flows，mobility of the talented，and other factors that economic globalization can bring in.As the beneficiary of the globalization，the second largest economy，a country trading the largest volume of commodities internationally，and other number ones，China is indeed willing to initiate and lead the potentially next wave of economic globalization. In addition，China is also obligated to seek a change in global system of governance on behave of its own，other developing countries，and other emerging markets. All those can help developing countries in general and emerging markets in particular to gain bigger say in global governance and bigger share of globalization dividends.The Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping，taking ancient land and maritime silk road as a symbol，aims to develop economic collaboration relationships and partnerships with countries along the belt and road，build a community with political mutual trust，economic integration and cultural inclusion. This initiative covers the core of economic globalization，seeks to construct new global governance framework，and is expected to become the tipping point of next wave of economic globalization. It aims to link the Chinese domestic development to the world development，to push forward the collaboration of real economy and production capacity among countries，and to extend domestic pattern of transferring manufacturing from coastal to inland regions to international“flying geese paradigm”.Before the global system of governance fully changes to more represent interests of developing countries，the Belt and Road Initiative and its corresponding institutional arrangements，such as Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank can supplement the defects of the existing system. On the other hand，one should not forget that the Belt and Road Initiative’s original purpose，that is，serving to fill the worldwide financial gap in constructing infrastructure.Since the Belt and Road Initiative was proposed in 2013，over 100 countries and international organizations have responded positively，and 40 of them have signed cooperative agreements with China. Chinese enterprises’ investments in countries along the belt and road amount to more than 50 billion US dollars，which serves to facilitate a host of major projects，boom economic development and expand employment in host countries. As President Xi put it，while the Belt and Road Initiative comes from China，it benefits the world.In front of readers is a series of books，on the theme of the Belt and Road Initiative and its practices in various localities. Those books include(1) A Field Investigation Report on the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road；(2) The Alignment of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Bright Road of Kazakhstan：Problems and Perspective；(3) The International Risk and Cooperative Space Expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative—the Example of Sri Lanka；(4) Port and Port Cities in Building of the Belt and Road；(5) Study on“21st Century Maritime Silk Road”Docking with“Global Maritime Fulcrum”：Research Report about Fujian Province of China and Indonesia；(6) Expanding the Belt and Road：A New Perspective on China—Latin America Integrated Cooperation；(7) The Construction and Development of Asia and Africa Economic Circle under the Belt and Road Perspective；(8) The Development in the Four Economic Corridors of Indian Ocean under the Chinese Belt and Road Perspective. I hope readers，both theorists and practitioners，will find them helpful.Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social ScienceBeijing，May 4，2017

简介： Hungary is a middle sized country either in the terms of national territorial area or in terms of population in Central Europe. However, Hungary has its special status in developing relations with China. In November 2016 when the Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi received the visiting Hungarian counterpartner Peter Szijarto who is attending the first China-Hungary working group meeting on implementation of the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), Wang said that there are a lot of Firsts which the bilateral relationship had made. Hungary is the first European country who signed the inter-governmental cooperation memorandum with China on implementation of BRI, the first country who had set up and started the working group meeting with China implementing BRI, the first country in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) China had set up RMB clearance bank, the first country in CEE who had issued RMB Bonds, the first country in CEE China had set up tourist representative office, as well as the first European country where they run the bilingual school in their mother language and Chinese language in the national education system. All these Firsts witness the high level of China-Hungarian relationship. Last but not least, Chinese leaders had visited Hungary in recent years. Xi Jinping had visited in 2009 and Li Keqiang in 2012, as well as Hu Jintao in 2004 and Wen Jiabao in 2011. It is the only such country in CEE, nevertheless in the world.In 2011 when Premier Wen Jiabao visited Hungary, China-CEEC Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum had been held in Budapest, which became the prelude of the China-CEEC Cooperation Mechanism that had been established one year later in Warsaw. After the official announcement of BRI, all 16 CEE countries in the Chine-CEEC Cooperation Mechanism were covered by BRI. In June 2015, Hungary became the first European country who had signed the Memorandum of Understanding with China on “Jointly Building the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road”. In November 2016, China and Hungary set up BRI joint working group and Hungary became the first European country who has the institutionalized cooperation in BRI. In 2017, China-CEEC Summit will be held in Budapest, Hungary will be the host again after 6 years cooperation and welcome the leaders of China-CEEC Cooperation Mechanism, by deepening the such cooperation mechanism and promoting the implementation of BRI in CEE region.This Think Tank Report has a special Hungarian angle. The editor of the Report had invited the scholars from famous Hungarian Think Tanks and research institutions to drafting papers, and elaborating their understandings on BRI and China-CEEC Cooperation. The Report should be the first product on BRI from a single BRI country.There are several significance of the Report. The first one is the Preface written by Cecilia Szilas, the Ambassador of Hungary to the People’s Republic of China. In her opinion, the world economic center of gravity is shifting from West to East, from the Atlantic region to the Pacific region with China being the focus. In 2010 the Hungarian Government decided that in addition to their traditional European markets it was necessary to put emphasized focus on developing economic and trade relations with the Eastern countries that have maintained significant growth during even the worst period of the crisis. This is what Hungary calls the “Eastern Opening” policy. The most important among them is the People’s Republic of China, the most significant trading partner of Hungary in Asia. As Hungary had opened toward the East, China had announced its own “One Belt, One Road” Initiative, to revive historical Silk Road economies and trade ties towards the West. The two policies complementing each other, Hungary, expressed its intention to contribute to the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative very early on, becoming the first “Belt and Road” Country in the European Union.The second significance of the Report is the authorization from the relevant Hungarian authorities on the permit to include two important speeches on BRI and Relations with China by the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the Governor of Hungarian Central Bank (MNB) Gyorgy Matolcsy respectively.In January 2017, invited by the MNB, the editor of the Report had attended the Lamfalussy Conference 2017 in Budapest. Viktor Orban had delivered a keynote speech at the Conference, which had been included into the Report. In his speech, Orban points out that China’s rise draws attention in Europe to a psychological problem, whether there is a willingness to accept China’s rise. There is a saying that “whatever exists is possible”, it applies to China, as well to the UK and USA. But the Europeans do not understand this, at least when it comes to China’s rise, the Brexit as well as the “America First”. Instead of trying to learn from this, they invest a a considerable energy in explaining that what exists is not really there. Or if it is, then it is only temporary and without foundations. In fact, since the 2008 financial crisis, the world economy and world politics have experienced a paradigm change, from single center of power to multiple centers of power. And today the success of European countries is measured by how rapidly they have been able to implement this change: which ones responded immediately, which ones reacted more slowly, and which ones are still in the process of waking up. A necessary concomitant of any change of paradigm is that the followers of the old order must engage in fierce debate with the followers of the new order. A world order with multiple centres has great many inherent opportunities to offer. Here is China. In Orban’s opinion it is clear that China is not a comet, but a fixed star, that will have a determining role in the world economy for many decades at least. With due respect it should be mentioned that in 2013 it was President Xi Jinping who launched the “One Belt, One Road” initiative, which was the first in a series which Orban believe will follow in the period ahead. Regarding Europe, Orban declares that Europe is struggling with four major crises at once, namely growth crisis, demographic crisis, security crisis as well as foreign policy crisis. Brussels has become enslaved to a utopia, and recently it has been unable to respond to any of the crisis satisfactorily. The European continent is becoming ever weaker: it has been reduced from a global player to a regional player, and soon it will be forced to struggle even for the status of a regional player. If we look to the European continent’s successful periods, we can see that Europe was never strong when it was directed by a single centre of power. We were strong when multiple centres of power existed within Europe. And today, it is policies of Brussels that transform these centres of power into a single centre of power. This answers the question of how we got to where we are today, referred to Orban’s speech. Hungary has turned from a black sheep into a success story from 2010 to 2016. Orban concludes the Hungarian model consists of four parts, namely political stability, strict fiscal policy, a workfare society as well as eastward opening. At the heart of the eastward opening lies respect instead of trade, and those who do not accept that respect takes priority over ideology will never be able to open to the East, because they do not understand the peoples of the East. In this respect Hungary is luckier, because Hungarian is an eastern people which was infused with Christianity, and this gives Hungarian a special perspective, enabling Hungarian to understand all that is happening in China.Hungarian has been regarded as a nation originated from East. For example, Hungarian is the only nation in Europe who has the family name first and the surname the second.Another speech was made by Gyorgy Matolcsy, the Governor of the Hungarian Central Bank, who delivered at the 54th Annul Conference of Hungarian Economist on 15 September 2016. The title of the speech is “Hungary: A Key State on the Silk Road”. Matolcsy started with the comparison between Hungary and Greece which went into crisis one and after another. Due to the different counter-crisis approach, Hungary is out of the crisis, therefor Greece is still suffering. The Greeks went down an orthodox, traditional, conventional path of economy policy forced on them by the “troika” (IMF, European Committee, European Central Bank). The Hungarian chose a specifically Hungarian path, focusing on structural reforms, and were able to preserve the autonomy of the economic policy. The path forced by the troika narrowed Greece’s room for manoeuvre. The way we chose broadened Hungary’s room for manoeuvre. The Greeks raised income tax, introduced property tax, the policy was accompanied by lay-offs and pension cuts. The minimum wage was lowered and they tried to implement privatisations. The Hungarians cut income taxes and the taxation balance was shifted to turnover and sectoral taxes. They introduced public employment and the career model. The Hungarian structural reforms were included in the first and second Széll Kálmán Plans, the national development plan. Hungary is one of the three best performers in the European Union regarding public debt reduction, and Greece is one of the five worst performers. In the second part of his speech, Matolcsy compared the economic development path between Hungary and Poland. In the past 20 years, the Polish have been the best in the European Union. With their annual GDP growth of 4% lasting for twenty years, they glided, slid over the crisis of 2008-2009 and there was not a downturn. There is a reform competition going on in the entire region. The Polish are in a better position because they introduced structural reform 10 years earlier, at the beginning of the 2000s, when Hungary indebted. The direction of the Polish reforms and the Hungarian transformation commencing 10 years later was the same. The Polish won the competition between 2000 and 2010. There are two or three similar countries in the European Union, such as Germany, where the global financial crisis did not toss the economic performance into the depth. But why had the Polish introduce the reforms ten years earlier? Because they were in a crisis then. They were motivated to the reform policy by such challenge. Hungary lost the reform competition against Poland in the 2000s, but since then Hungary have been standing firm. In the last part of the speech, the Governor had pointed out that all the schemes must be prepared concentrating on three big centres of world economy, namely Europe, North America and Northeast Asia and East Asia, especially China. Hungarian GDP is €100 billion, the Austrian is €300 billion, that of Baden-Württemberg is €460 billion, the Bavarian one is €500 billion. The difference is great, and still, it is reasonable to talk about the idea of implementing a sustainable catch-up turnaround and process in the next 30 years. The second €100 million of the Hungarian GDP can be found in Asia, especially in China. Hungary is in the globalization through German channels, now Hungary should pay more attention to Silk Road because it is where the second €100 million can be achieved. The Hungarian Central Bank had promoted the implementation of BRI in Hungary, such as currency SWAP with PBoC, Budapest RMB Initiative, RMB dominated bond purchase, Issuing Tim Sum Bond in Hong Kong. Last but not least, BOC Hungaria Co. had been authorized as the RMB clearance center in Central and Eastern Europe.The third significance of the Report is the invited papers by the two former ambassadors of Hungary to China. Sandor Kusai was the Ambassador to China between 2008-2014. He had personally experienced the period of the preparation and the initiation of BRI and China-CEEC Cooperation Mechanism. The transregional Cooperation between 16 CEE Countries and China went through a two-phase history of establishment, stabilization and then in-depth development within six years, and got closely interconnected with BRI. This cooperation achieved considerable results and acquired some new and unique characteristics, which provided a solid basis for its further development. The interests and motivations of its participants continue to evolve under the influence of changing regional and global environment, especially under the pressing need for an improved model of globalization. Kusai sums up some lessons of its development and identifies some major tasks for preserving its dynamism, focusing on the win-win economic cooperation, strengthening its transregional character, improving its perception in the European Union, and adapting it to the changing global environment. The accomplishment of those tasks may guarantee and improve further the bright prospects for this valuable cooperation framework.Juhasz Otto was the Hungarian Ambassador to China in 1990s. He studied in Beijing in 1950s and now continues his study on China with papers and books. The paper he submitted to the Report is “The New Challenge for EU and the New Amber Road” which is together drafted by Prof. Andras Inotai, who was the director of the Institute for World Economy at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The authors analyze the crisis and challenges the EU was facing and as one mistake induced another, the EU eventually walked into the Turkish trap. A great Hungarian poet called Hungary a “ferryboat-country”, meaning that Hungary shuttles between the Western and the Eastern banks of an imaginary river between the East and the West. Building China-CEEC relationship does not contradict or even less undermine EU solidarity, since China is obviously interested in a stronger Union which has the capacity to become a key player and one of the centers of international politics. Ambassador Juhasz had raise the concept “Amber Road” in December 2014 in Guangming Daily. The antique Amber Road was an important and well-built route serving the Roman Empire. Its building started in the beginning of the 1st century. It led from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea at Aquileia. Amber was transported along this road to Rome, Greece and Egypt. Some sections were used even in the 19th century. The construction of the Budapest-Belgrade railway is a part of the “Sixteen Plus One” project. This line would only satisfy the requirements of the region and China, if it was extended to the Baltic countries in the North and to Piraeus in the South. Such a North-South transport corridor has a historical antecedent from the European antiquity, therefore it is justified to call it the New Amber Road. The realization of the New Amber Road would play an important role in the development of closer links between these countries. The authors conclude that the Western end goal of OBOR would not be an isolated CEE. The ultimate results should enrich the mutually advantageous partnerships between the whole Europe, including the whole of the European Union and China.The following paper is prepared by Gabor Braun, a senior economist at the Hungarian Institute of Foreign Affairs and Trade, a Think Tank affiliated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary. In his paper “Chinese-Hungarian Economic Relations”, he argues that the ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative provides a proper and inclusive framework for strengthening the partnership with the interested countries along the New Silk Road. Closer economic cooperation in the fields of policy coordination, trade and investment promotion, infrastructure development and financial systems may also offer solutions even to some internal economic difficulties. Nonetheless, cooperation should be realized in different levels (e.g. China-EU, China-CEECs, bilateral and inter-institutional levels) and on voluntary basis according to the particular issues. One of the best example is the so-called “16+1 cooperation”, which incorporates different mechanisms and arrangements between China and sixteen Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). Hungary perceives that it may have an outstanding position concerning the China-CEECs cooperation.The Report also includes two papers from CEE regional perspective. One is conducted by Viktor Eszterhai, who is an analyst at the Pallas Athéné Geopolitcal Foundation (PAGEO) fund by the Central Bank of Hungary. In his paper titled “The Central and Eastern European countries’ attitude toward the OBOR initiative: hopes and reality”, he introduces the general situation of the China-CEEC cooperation and points out that Central and Eastern European countries have been especially supportive toward the grand vison of the Chinese foreign policy, the “One Belt, One Road” , since the region sees the initiative as a unique opportunity to strengthen their economies in order to close the gap with the Western part of Europe. He also examines the validity of the optimism in Central and Eastern European countries toward the “One Belt, One Road” by introducing both the possible ­positive and negative impacts of the initiative. Another paper “China and V4 Region” is jointly prepared by the researchers at the Antal Jozsef Knowledge Center (AJTK), a prominent Think Tank in Hungary as well as in V4 region. Talking about Central Europe, we cannot neglect Visegrad Group (V4), which is a sub-regional cooperation fund by Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary after the cold war. After the accession to the EU, it is still an important platform to coordination and collective actions among the V4 states. V4 countries take 70% of trade volume between China and 16 CEE countries. Chinese may need V4 to represent BRI’s interest on a European level. However, plans should be more transparent to European and V4 partners. V4 might also need to join big institutions coordinating the realization of the project, like AIIB, and, parallelly, create their own institutions responsible for the same matter.The last but not least there are two papers contributed by GKI Economic Research, a prominent economic Think Tank. One is by Dr. Miklos Losoncz, a senior researcher, the other is by Andras Vertes, the President of GKI Economic Research, and once the premier candidate in 2009 in Hungary. Losoncz made a comparative analysis of the Visegrad countries concerning transfers from the European Union, and the capability absorbing funds. Vertes argues the impact of EU funds for the Hungarian economic growth and competitiveness.The idea of this Think Tank Report is born in Budapest when I was invited by the Central Bank of Hungary for conferences and seminars in November 2016. During the different academic activities, I got in touch with a number of Hungarian scholars and researchers, and felt the growing heat on BRI and on China-CEEC Cooperation, either from the academia or political figures. I was influenced by such a flame of friendship and made up my mind to work on editing a Think Tank Report to reflect the original Hungarian thoughts. The invitations had been sent and within two and half months, all the papers had been received. I appreciate very much for all the contributions from the authors and their hard work. Special thanks to those who had provided full support for the Report: Dr. Horvath Marcell, the director of the international cooperation at the Central Bank of Hungary; Peter Antal, director of the Antal Jozsef Knowledge Center (AJTK), as well as Adam Kegler, the deputy director of AJTK; Ambassador Marton Schoberl, director general of the Hungarian Institute of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Anton Bendarzsevszkij, director of the Pallas Athéné Geopolitcal Foundation; and Tamas Veres, counselor at the Hungarian Embassy in Beijing. Last but not least, the publication of this Report had received full support from Prof. Huang Ping, secretary general of the China-CEEC Think Tank Network, and Dr. Liu Zuokui, head of the office of the Secretariat. Without those support, it is impossible to provide the Report to the respect readers.I also would like to thank the team who makes significant contribution to the out come of Report. They are Dr. Li Danlin, the deputy direetor of Editor Board of Journal of Euroasia Economy, and Ma Junchi, a junior researcher at the Division of Central and Eastern European Studies, in the Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. All the heartful thanks to their hard work.Dr. Chen XinFebruary 2017, Beijing and Budapest

简介： From both what happened in the United States and Europe and what the political economy perspective of the world would expect, anyone may predict a weakening trend of the economic globalization in at least the near future. That is, the predictable politics and economic policies in the western countries, which have been the major drivers of the previous wave of globalization, tend to drive down the economic globalization, alongside nationalism and populism dominate the policy-making of international trade and investment flows in a quite few countries.That trend does not necessarily mean a catastrophe for China’s economic growth, though it has benefited from the previous economic globalization. China will accomplish its goals of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects in 2020 and realizing its great rejuvenation in 2050, no matter what happens to the globalization. China, however, does hope that there will be a sound environment of international trade, capital flows, mobility of the talented, and other factors that economic globalization can bring in.As the beneficiary of the globalization, the second largest economy, a country trading the largest volume of commodities internationally, and other number ones, China is indeed willing to initiate and lead the potentially next wave of economic globalization. In addition, China is also obligated to seek a change in global system of governance on behave of its own, other developing countries, and other emerging markets. All those can help developing countries in general and emerging markets in particular to gain bigger say in global governance and bigger share of globalization dividends.The Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping, taking ancient land and maritime silk road as a symbol, aims to develop economic collaboration relationships and partnerships with countries along the belt and road, build a community with political mutual trust, economic integration and cultural inclusion. This initiative covers the core of economic globalization, seeks to construct new global governance framework, and is expected to become the tipping point of next wave of economic globalization. It aims to link the Chinese domestic development to the world development, to push forward the collaboration of real economy and production capacity among countries, and to extend domestic pattern of transferring manufacturing from coastal to inland regions to international “flying geese paradigm”.Before the global system of governance fully changes to more represent interests of developing countries, the Belt and Road Initiative and its corresponding institutional arrangements, such as Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank can supplement the defects of the existing system. On the other hand, one should not forget that the Belt and Road Initiative’s original purpose, that is, serving to fill the worldwide financial gap in constructing infrastructure.Since the Belt and Road Initiative was proposed in 2013, over 100 countries and international organizations have responded positively, and 40 of them have signed cooperative agreements with China. Chinese enterprises’ investments in countries along the belt and road amount to more than 50 billion US dollars, which serves to facilitate a host of major projects, boom economic development and expand employment in host countries. As President Xi put it, while the Belt and Road Initiative comes from China, it benefits the world.In front of readers is a series of books, on the theme of the Belt and Road Initiative and its practices in various localities. Those books include(1) A Field Investigation Report on the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road; (2) The Alignment of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Bright Road of Kazakhstan: Problems and Perspective; (3) The International Risk and Cooperative Space Expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative—the Example of Sri Lanka; (4) Port and Port Cities in Building of the Belt and Road; (5) Study on “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” Docking with “Global Maritime Fulcrum”: Research Report about Fujian Province of China and Indonesia; (6) Expanding the Belt and Road : A New Perspective on China—Latin America Integrated Cooperation;(7) The Construction and Development of Asia and Africa Economic Circle under the Belt and Road Perspective; (8) The Development in the Four Economic Corridors of Indian Ocean under the Chinese Belt and Road Perspective. I hope readers, both theorists and practitioners, will find them helpful.Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social ScienceBeijing, May 4, 2017