Transport, communications, and infrastructure
As China continues its rise in the world, transport, communications and infrastructure have emerged as a necessity for developing and sustaining its growth. The current flagship project of the Chinese government is the Belt and Road Initiative, the largest programme for mobility and connectivity the world has seen, which includes railroads, pipelines, seaports, digital connectivity, policy coordination, and cultural exchanges. Beijing suggests that it indicates a ‘new type of international relations’, and some argue that it indicates the shift from an American to a Chinese world order. The BRI is the kind of empirical phenomenon that is best approached through the kind of futures-oriented, stakeholder-led, and multi-disciplinary research with China expertise that LUCC is outstandingly able to undertake.
糖心视频 has a strong history of research and consultancy relating to China and digital communication, mobility, and transport, including on a number of projects researching the Belt and Road Initiative. We have a joint college in Weihai, Shandong province, together with Beijing Jiaotong University, which focuses on infrastructure. We also have campuses in Africa and Southeast Asia, as well as a network of academic, government, social, and business partners, with whom we conduct research on the broader interactions, intersections and interdependencies involved in China’s overseas presence.
Recent publications on transport, communications, and infrastructure
Jones, L., & Zeng, J. (2019) ''. Third World Quarterly.
Zeng, J. (2019), ''. Global Policy. 10(2), pp. 207-216.
Nordin, A.H.M. and M. Weissmann (2018) ‘’, International Affairs. 94(2), pp. 231-249.
Luan, S., Chen, C., Zhang, B., Han, J., Liu, J. (2018) ‘’ IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 27(9), pp. 4357 - 4366.
Liu, Y., Han, J., Zhang, Q., Wang, L. (2018) ‘’, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. pp. 1
Guo, Y., Ding, G., Han, J. (2018) ‘’, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 27(2), pp. 949-963.
Guozhi Cao, Lei Yang, Lingxuan Liu et al. (2018) ‘’, Science of The Total Environment, 633, pp. 1165–1172.
Resources on Transport, communications, and infrastructure
weekly analysis on the Belt and Road Initiative.
: programmatic documents explaining China’s activities in areas such as outer space, the Internet, the environment and climate change.
rich visual renderings of many China-related transport and infrastructure initiatives, including the Belt and Road, from the Mercantor Institute for China Studies in Germany.
handy tool for checking whether a certain online site is available in China.