The Construction of New Land and Sea Corridors in the West from the Perspective of "Soft Connectivity". Improvement of the Path
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: As a major national strategic deployment, the new western land and sea corridor is China's ASEAN-facing land and sea trade corridor and an important link to China-ASEAN cooperation. Since it was first proposed in 2017, the construction speed of the new western land and sea corridor has been increasing, and the system of the new land and sea corridor with Chongqing, Guangxi, Guizhou, Gansu, Qinghai and other western provinces as the main operating body has been gradually improved. However, the construction of new western land and sea corridors still faces many challenges, which need to be analysed in depth from the perspective of "soft connectivity" to identify the shortcomings and weaknesses that constrain its development, and then put forward a targeted improvement path. This paper will start from the new connotation of "soft connectivity" construction under the new development pattern, and analyse in-depth the current "soft connectivity" construction of western land and sea new corridor, which exists in the absence of long-term policy communication mechanism, the channel rules and standards system is not sound, the policy landing rate is low, the business environment is not good, the financial support for the construction of the channel project is not good, and the development of the corridor project is not good. Inadequate financial support for the construction of the corridor project, unbalanced humanistic exchanges along the route, and a large gap between the supply and demand of talents, etc., and put forward relevant improvement paths to provide reference for the construction of the new western land and sea corridor.
DOI: 10.54097/qdsqm653
Authors: Wanhong Huang, Xiaoqi Zhou
Language: English
Topic: Belt and Road Initiative
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409015315