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The international investment literature consistently indicates that enterprises, functioning as pivotal components of the economic system, engage in diversified outward foreign investment activities, thereby catalyzing the transition towards a greener and more sustainable economy and society. Based on the overseas investment data of Chinese listed companies from 2009 to 2019, this paper adopts a comprehensive approach comprising the two-way fixed effects model, propensity score matching technique, and difference-in-differences set up to evaluate the impact of the enterprise's overseas investment quantity and decision-making of host countries on green development. The findings explore that an increase in outward investment quantity facilitates the enterprise's green transition, which withstands robustness testing, including the decomposition of the green transition index, adjustments to the sample timeframe, and exclusion of corporate samples from top-tier cities. Such promoting effects are more pronounced among listed companies investing in low- and middle-income countries, as well as those located in provinces aligned with the Belt and Road Initiative in China. Further, an enterprise's overseas investment decision-making by the proposal of the BRI has exhibited a substantial and enduring enhancement of green development. This discovery underscores a pragmatic trajectory for the enterprise's green transformation, driven by proactive engagement in high-level openness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The implementation of the ''Belt and Road'' strategy is an important strategic support for building a new regional opening pattern. It has important strategic significance for cultivating new industries along the line and developing new space for the development of the marine economy. All relevant coastal cities should actively use the development strategy of this country in the new era and actively promote the upgrading and transformation of the marine economic structure. This paper firstly introduces the opportunities brought by the ''One Belt and One Road'' to the marine industry of China's coastal provinces, and analyzes the main problems existing in the development of marine economic industry in China's coastal provinces. Then, the North Bay is taken as an example to propose the marine industry selection and system construction. Finally, it expounds the path of the adjustment of the marine economic industrial structure of China's coastal provinces under the ''Belt and Road Initiative"initiative. It is expected to promote the cooperation and exchange of higher-level marine economy among the countries and regions along the coastal cities of China and the Maritime Silk Road, and promote the development of marine economy in China's coastal cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Li, B.J., 2020. Export effect of trade facilitation in Asian "Belt and Road" coastal countries on China's cross-border e-commerce. In: Guido Aldana, P.A. and Kantamaneni, K. (eds.), Advances in Water Resources, Coastal Management, and Marine Science Technology. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 104, pp. 628–632. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. As the "Belt and Road" initiative was put forward, the volume of trading economy in countries along the routes has increased significantly, among which Asian countries have gained the highest trade activity. Thus it is of great import to examine the level of trade facilitation for Asian countries along the routes, so as to prop up the industry of cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) in China. This paper selects four first-grade indexes of infrastructure, rules and regulations, customs environment and e-commerce, and then further refining them into 12 second-grade indexes for establishing a trade facilitation evaluation system; by adopting the panel data within ten years from 2009 to 2018, and in the meantime, based on the extended gravity model, the paper verifies that trade facilitation produces an obvious positive effect on China's CBEC export. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Eco-efficiency is evaluated from manufacturing and environmental protection stage. • Eco-efficiencies of two stages in most China's provinces are at a low level. • There are differences in two-stage eco-efficiency among China's provinces. • The effects of "Belt and Road" on the eco-efficiency of two stages are opposite. This paper divides the industrial eco-economic system into manufacturing stage and environmental protection stage, uses the improved metabolic GM(1,1) model and TOPSIS-DEA cross-efficiency model to evaluate the two-stage eco-efficiency of China's provinces from 2005 to 2020. On this basis, regression discontinuity is utilized to analyze the heterogeneous impact of "Belt and Road" initiative (BRI) on the eco-efficiency of industrial eco-economic system and two stages. The results show that: the eco-efficiency of industrial eco-economic system (EIES) and the eco-efficiency of manufacturing stage (EMS) have been at a relatively high level, while the eco-efficiency of environmental protection stage (EEPS) is still at a low level so far. The EIES and EMS of the provinces in eastern region are higher than those of the central, western and northeastern regions, while the EEPS of the western region is higher than that of the other three regions. The impacts of BRI on EIES and EEPS are significantly positive, while the BRI has a negative effect on EMS. In addition, there is a significant positive relationship between economic development level and EIES, EMS, and EEPS, industrial structure can promote EIES and EMS, and technological innovation has a significant positive correlation with EMS, a significant negative correlation with EEPS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Increasing economic and population growth has put immense pressure on energy, water and land resources to satisfy national and supra-national demand. Through trade, a large proportion of such a demand is fulfilled. With trade as one of its key priorities, the China Belt and Road Initiative is a long-term transcontinental investment program. The initiative gained significant attention due to greater opportunities for economic development, large population and different levels of resource availability. The nexus approach has appeared as a new viewpoint in discussions on balancing the competing sectoral demands. However, following years of work, constraints exist in the scope and focus of studies. The newly developed multi-regional input–output (MRIO) models covering the world's economy and its use of resources permit a comprehensive analysis of resource usage by production and consumption at different levels, and bring more knowledge about resource nexus problems. Using the MRIO model, this work simultaneously tracks energy, water and land use flows and investigates the transnational resource nexus. A nexus strength indicator is proposed which depends on ternary diagrams to grade countries based on their combined resources' use and sectoral weighting. Equal sectoral weighting is assigned. The analysis presented a sectorally balanced nexus approach. Findings support existing work by recognizing energy, water and land as the robust transnational connections, from both production and consumption points of view. Resource nexus issues differ from country to country owing to inequalities in industrial set-up, preferences in economic policy and resource endowments. The paper outlines how key resource nexus problems can be identified and prioritized in view of alternative and often opposing interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zhang, F.-F. and Ji, M., 2019. Adjustment path of marine economic industrial structure in China's coastal provinces under the 'belt and road' initiative. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 593–596. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The implementation of the "Belt and Road" strategy is an important strategic support for building a new regional opening pattern. It has important strategic significance for cultivating new industries along the line and developing new space for the development of the marine economy. All relevant coastal cities should actively use the development strategy of this country in the new era and actively promote the upgrading and transformation of the marine economic structure. This paper firstly introduces the opportunities brought by the "One Belt and One Road" to the marine industry of China's coastal provinces, and analyzes the main problems existing in the development of marine economic industry in China's coastal provinces. Then, the North Bay is taken as an example to propose the marine industry selection and system construction. Finally, it expounds the path of the adjustment of the marine economic industrial structure of China's coastal provinces under the "Belt and Road Initiative"initiative. It is expected to promote the cooperation and exchange of higher-level marine economy among the countries and regions along the coastal cities of China and the Maritime Silk Road, and promote the development of marine economy in China's coastal cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Li, L.Y. and Lu, P., 2020. Research on the business cycle transmission mechanism and related policies of China and B&R economies including coastal cities. In: Bai, X. and Zhou, H. (eds.), Advances in Water Resources, Environmental Protection, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 115, pp. 456-460. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This paper applies the panel Simultaneous Equations Model (SEM) and Three-Stage Least Squares (3SLS) to studying how the transmission mechanisms of bilateral trade, specialized division of labor, financial integration and policy coordination affect the business cycle co-movement between China and the B&R economies including coastal cities. The study finds that: 1) Bilateral trade, financial integration, the coordination of fiscal and monetary policies and B&R intergovernmental MOU have a significant role in promoting the co-movement of the economic cycle, while the specialized division of labor reduces the co-movement. 2) In terms of policy effects, the positive impact of B&R intergovernmental MOU on the co-movement outweighs the sum of that brought by the coordination of fiscal and monetary policies. 3) Relative importance of each transmission mechanism varies significantly. The transmission mechanisms considering coastal cities, sorted by their impact on the co-movement in descending order, are: bilateral trade, financial integration, B&R intergovernmental MOU and the specialized division of labor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Li, L.Y. and Lu, P., 2020. Research on the business cycle transmission mechanism and related policies of China and B&R economies including coastal cities. In: Bai, X. and Zhou, H. (eds.), Advances in Water Resources, Environmental Protection, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 115, pp. 456-460. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This paper applies the panel Simultaneous Equations Model (SEM) and Three-Stage Least Squares (3SLS) to studying how the transmission mechanisms of bilateral trade, specialized division of labor, financial integration and policy coordination affect the business cycle co-movement between China and the B&R economies including coastal cities. The study finds that: 1) Bilateral trade, financial integration, the coordination of fiscal and monetary policies and B&R intergovernmental MOU have a significant role in promoting the co-movement of the economic cycle, while the specialized division of labor reduces the co-movement. 2) In terms of policy effects, the positive impact of B&R intergovernmental MOU on the co-movement outweighs the sum of that brought by the coordination of fiscal and monetary policies. 3) Relative importance of each transmission mechanism varies significantly. The transmission mechanisms considering coastal cities, sorted by their impact on the co-movement in descending order, are: bilateral trade, financial integration, B&R intergovernmental MOU and the specialized division of labor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The construction of the green Belt and Road is an important aspect for the achievement of a green transition of the regional economy and an important aspect of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Chinese government has attached great importance to the green BRI, and it has successively issued the Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Green BRI and the Belt and Road Ecological and Environmental Cooperation Plan , which embodies China's firm determination and practical action to promote the green BRI. In this paper, an index system and multi-hierarchy linear summation method is proposed to evaluate the level of green development in 2015 for 49 countries along the Belt and Road. The results showed that the green development levels displayed spatial differences, varying from high to low in an easterly direction from the western region. The spatial differentiation was characterized by strong global spatial dependences and a ladder-like distribution that descends from west to east, with a centralized distribution of high-high zones and low-low zones and a dispersed distribution of low-high zones. This study also provides policy recommendations for Belt and Road countries. • The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will have major global environmental impacts. • Identify the spatial differences of green development level in the Belt and Road region. • Robust sustainability policy guide the countries along the Belt and Road toward achievement of the 2030 Agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zhu, W., 2019. Study on the adjustment path of marine economic industrial structure in China's coastal provinces under the Belt and Road initiative. In: Li, L.; Wan, X.; and Huang, X. (eds.), Recent Developments in Practices and Research on Coastal Regions: Transportation, Environment and Economy. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 98, pp. 219–222. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The implementation of the Belt and Road initiative is an important strategic support for building a new regional opening pattern. It has important strategic significance for cultivating new industries along the line and developing new space for the development of the marine economy. All relevant coastal cities should actively use the development strategy of this country in the new era and actively promote the upgrading and transformation of the marine economic structure. This paper introduces the opportunities brought by the Belt and Road initiative to the marine industry of China's coastal provinces and analyzes the main problems existing in the development of marine economic industry in China's coastal provinces. Then, the North Bay is taken as an example to propose the marine industry selection and system construction. Finally, it expounds the path of the adjustment of the marine economic industrial structure of China's coastal provinces under the Belt and Road initiative. It is expected to promote the cooperation and exchange of higher level marine economy among the countries and regions along the coastal cities of China and the Maritime Silk Road and promote the development of marine economy in China's coastal cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]