PrefaceChina’s The Belt and Road initiative has attracted worldwide attention. As Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is an important region along the Belt and Road, CEE countries have made growing cooperation with China. Before the formal initiation of the Belt and Road, China has established “16+1” cooperative framework in 2002. In the past few years, under the promotion of this mechanism, bilateral exchange and cooperation in political, economic, cultural and other fields have been greatly deepened, which have achieved remarkable achievements and have effectively promoted the construction of the Belt and Road initiative in Central and Eastern Europe.Both the construction of the Belt and Road initiative in CEEC and “16+1” cooperative framework are important practice of China’s opening up policy in the 21st century and they have also become the topical issues that pay attention by scholars from think tanks. Think tanks in CEE region have attached more importance to the current situation, prospect and challenges of China-CEEC cooperation under the Belt and Road initiative and “16+1” cooperative framework. They also made in-depth study from the level of countries, CEE region and even the whole Europe in the perspective of politics, economy and culture. As bilateral cooperation is increasingly deepened, we need to understand and analyze further that how CEE scholars consider the Belt and Road initiative and “16+1”cooperation as well as their analysis about current cooperation and challenges. It will be helpful for both sides to get acknowledge of the essential characteristics and latest progress of the Belt and Road initiative and “16+1” cooperation, to achieve the effect of“telling Chinese stories by foreigner’s mouth”. What’s more, it also provides useful ideas for the promotion of the Belt and Road initiative in CEE region and the deepening of“16+1” cooperation.Therefore, under the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, China-CEEC Think Tanks Exchange and Cooperation Network (shorted as 16+1 Think Tanks Network) has organized many activities such as seminars, joint projects, to make close cooperation with CEEC think tanks, which has achieved a lot of research fruits. The papers in this book is selected from the outcomes of the Compass Plan of China-EU Relations Fund by Chinese Foreign Ministry in 2015, and Project of China-CEEC Relations Research Fund in 2016.The book includes ten scholars’ papers about China-CEEC relations under the the Belt and Road initiative and “16+1” cooperative framework. The themes cover the possible connection of national strategies, economy and trade, investment, infrastructure, cultural exchanges. Countries from the Baltic Sea, Central Europe and the Balkan region are involved. All these papers are the most cutting-edge and in-depth research from CEEC think tanks. We hope that it will bring positive effects for the CEEC study both at home and abroad, and the procedure of decision making by related ministries.Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to the team for the fruitful works they have made during the project. They are Liu Zuokui, director of the Secretariat of the 16+1 Think Tank Network and director of the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies, Institute of European Studies, CASS; Ju Weiwei and Ma Junchi, researchers of the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies; Bing Xue and Zhang Tong, programme officers of the Secretariat of the 16+1 Think Tank Network.Huang PingSecretary-General of the 16+1 Think Tank NetworkDirector-General of the Institute of European Studies, CASS

黄平，社会学博士（1991,伦敦经济政治学院[LSE]），中国社会科学院研究员、中国社会科学院欧洲研究所所长。主持过国家社会科学基金课题、中国社会科学院重大课题以及联合国、欧盟、世界银行、亚洲开发银行等资助的研究课题和发展项目，并参与组织了2010年“中欧文化高峰论坛”等大型高层学术交流活动。

黄平的研究领域包括社会发展、全球化与中国道路、多元现代性、中美关系、欧洲社会等，主要著作包括：《未完成的叙说》、《误导与发展》、《梦里家国：社会发展，全球化，中国道路》、《我们的时代：现代中国从哪里来、到哪里去？》（与韩毓海、姚洋合著）。主编过《与地球重新签约》、《公共性的重建》（上、下册）、《本土全球化》、《华侨华人在中国软实力建设中的作用》、《中国与全球化：华盛顿共识还是北京共识？》（与崔之元合编）、《面对面的距离》、《中欧关系与“一带一路”》（与赵晨合编）、China CEEC Cooperation and the Belt and Road Initiative、The Stakeholders in China CEEC Cooperation（与刘作奎合编）等。

Huang Ping, Ph.D.in Sociology (LSE, London, 1991), Senior Research Fellow(1997-), is Director General, Institute of European Studies Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Secretary General, China-CEEC Think Tank Network, President, Chinese Association of American Studies, and has been Vice Presidents for the China National Association of International Relations, Chinese Association of World Politics Studies, Chinese Association of European Studies, and China Association for Hong Kong Macao Studies, he is also the Co-Chair, European Institut Transcultural.

Before he took current positions, Prof. Huang was the Deputy Director General, Institute of Sociology, Director General, Institute of American Studies, CASS, and was elected as Vice President, International Social Science Council (ISSC, 2005-2008), Vice President, International Institute of Sociology (IIS, 2003-2013), Vice Chairman, Management of Social Transformation (MOST, UNESCO, 2001-2005). He is in the editorial board in British Journal of Sociology, Current Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Global Social Policy, Sociology of Development, and Journal of Migration, etc.

Huang has published books and papers on development, poverty, migration, modernity, China-US and China-Europe relations. he was a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, Oxford, etc.

刘作奎 历史学博士，研究员，博士研究生导师，中国社会科学院欧洲研究所副所长，创新工程项目首席专家，“百千万人才工程国家级人选”、“有突出贡献中青年专家”，兼任中国-中东欧国家智库交流与合作网络秘书长、中国—中东欧研究院副院长、中国社会科学院希腊中国研究中心执行主任，主要研究领域为中欧关系、欧美关系、中东欧问题以及中国—中东欧国家合作等。曾在德国曼海姆大学、日本青山学院大学、波兰国际事务研究所、拉脱维亚国际事务研究所做访问学者，三次获得院创新工程重大科研成果奖，曾获得院优秀对策信息特等奖和一等奖。共发表学术论文近百篇。

Liu Zuokui, director and researcher at the Central and Eastern Europe Research Office at the Institute of European Studies, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Secretary General of the China-CEEC Think Tank Exchange and Cooperation Network.