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The grand Chinese endeavour, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is a Chinese attempt to carve out its own economic development model. Technology transfer is essential to economic development and therefore it plays a central role in the BRI. While the World Trade Organization (WTO) envisages a liberal trade model for development including transfer of technology, does the BRI offer a different/alternative technology transfer model? This article deals with this question by analysing Chinese technology transferrelated policies, namely Intellectual Property (IP) and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policies in the context of the BRI. This article contrasts inbound/outbound Chinese technology transfer-related policies/practices and tries to forecast the impact of integrating these policies in the BRI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]