2019年4月，中国社会科学院积极响应国家主席习近平在2018年中非合作论坛北京峰会开幕式讲话精神，成立中国非洲研究院，旨在同非洲各国深化文明互鉴，加强治国理政和发展经验交流，为中非共同推进“一带一路”合作，共同建设面向未来的中非全面战略合作伙伴关系，共同构筑更加紧密的中非命运共同体提供智力支持和人才支撑。习近平主席在致中国非洲研究院成立贺信中指出，希望中国非洲研究院汇聚中非学术智库资源，增进中非人民相互了解和友谊，为中非和中非同其他各方的合作集思广益、建言献策，为促进中非关系发展、构建人类命运共同体贡献力量。

China’s emphasis on infrastructure development has received support from African leaders. Its focus on infrastructure development in Africa was endorsed by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between China and the African Union on 27 January 2015. The agreement outline plans for connecting African countries through transportation infrastructure projects, including modern highways, airports, and high speed railways. At the heart of Belt and Road Initiative lies the creation of an economic land belt that includes countries on the original Silk Road through Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe, as well as a maritime “road” that links China’s port facilities with the African coast, pushing up through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean. China has from the outset emphasised that the Belt and Road Initiative will be developed within the framework of the five principles. These entails mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty; non-aggression; non-interference in each other’s internal affairs; equality and mutual benefit; and peaceful coexistence. This volume provides an analysis of this stance by both African and Chinese scholars. Africa through its Agenda 2063 has been driving, among others, the re-industrialisation of its economies, improved connectivity and infrastructure development, diversification of energy sources, technology transfer and skills development. The Belt and Road Initiative provides an alternative path for Africa to realise some of these milestones.

AbstractThe Belt and Road Initiative is an important platform for China’s foreign cooperation in the new era.The initiative，underpinned by winwin cooperation，aims to provide diversified options and impetus for world development through cooperation involving a wider range of countries.It has drawn on the experience of China-Africa cooperation and embodies the new international relations proposed by the Chinese government.When Africa’s independent development is improving and its market-oriented reform is being implemented，it serves the development of African countries to deepen China-Africa capacity cooperation.In this context，the book is written to provide general information and past experience concerning China-Africa capacity cooperation.Key Words:China，Africa，The Belt and Road Initiative，Production Capacity Cooperation.

Officially announced by Xi Jinping in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has since become the centrepiece of China’s economic diplomacy. It is a commitment to ease bottlenecks to Eurasian trade by improving and building networks of connectivity across Central and Western Asia, where the BRI aims to act as a bond for the projects of regional cooperation and integration already in progress in Southern Asia. But it also reaches out to the Middle East as well as East and North Africa, a truly strategic area where the Belt joins the Road. Europe, the end-point of the New Silk Roads, both by land and by sea, is the ultimate geographic destination and political partner in the BRI. This report provides an in-depth analysis of the BRI, its logic, rationale and implications for international economic and political relations.

古丝绸之路上的驼铃桨声穿越时空，在新世纪奏响“一带一路”交响曲。“一带一路”倡议顺应和平、发展、合作、共赢的时代潮流，以构建新型国际关系和人类命运共同体为使命担当，承载着丝绸之路沿途各国发展繁荣的梦想，赋予古老的丝绸之路以崭新的时代内涵。

One of Chinese president Xi Jinping's signature foreign policy programs is the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a web of infrastructure development plans designed to increase Eurasian economic integration. Chinese official rhetoric on the BRI focuses on its economic promise and progress, often in altruistic terms: all countries have been invited to board this "express train" to wealth and prosperity. Missing from the rhetoric is much discussion of the initiative's security dimensions and implications. Chinese officials avoid describing the strategic benefits they think the BRI could produce, while also gliding over major security risks and concerns. Yet at the unofficial level, China's security community has paid close attention to these issues, probing in great depth the gains Beijing can expect, the challenges it will face, and the new demands it will have to satisfy. Understanding those Chinese assessments is helpful as the United States considers how, when, and in what capacity to engage the BRI.

This timely Research Handbook investigates the radically transformative impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), addressing key questions regarding its economic, political and strategic consequences: what does the Chinese government hope to achieve with the BRI? How have recipient states responded? And what are its potential opportunities and risks?