Looking back over the past 40-plus years, the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy the key to what makes today’s China. While advancing domestic development, China has always held high the banner of peace, development, cooperation and win-win results, worked to align the Chinese Dream with the global dream, promoted global economic growth through international cooperation platforms such as the Belt and Road Initiative, and provided Chinese proposals for world peace and human development. In this book, Chinese and foreign scholars interpret China’s reform and opening-up and the Belt and Road Initiative from various perspectives and form a new mode of cross-cultural discussion, to better understand China in the context of cultural diversity and multiple modernities.
PART 1 Theoretical, Legal and Environmental Preconditions of the Belt and Road Initiative
The Belt and Road Initiative Following the Keystones of China’s Civilisation and Opening Up 3
The Legal Aspects of the Belt and Road Initiative 41
China’s Economic and Legal Interdependence on the Global Stage 59
The Living Environment and Sustainability Application within China’s Natural Resources 71
PART 2 The Economic and Financial Dynamic in PR China and the Belt and Road
Capital Flows of China 93
New Challenges in Project Financing of the Belt and Road Initiative 109
Analysis of the Development and Expanding of China’s Internet Economy 137
PART 3 The China-Europe Economic Interactions and the “17+1 Cooperation”
Chinese Cooperation with Europe in Trade and Investment: 40 Years 155
New Era of China-EU Investment Protection 175
China’s Active Participation in International Rule-setting: The Case of the “17+1 Cooperation” within the Belt and Road Initiative Framework 187
PART 4 A Case Study: Czech-China Economic Interactions
The Current Situation, Trends and Countermeasures of Bilateral Trade between China and the Czech Republic 201
Czech-China Economic Relations 213
