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Infrastructure Connectivity: Thinking big, Starting Small
Feng LI, Associate ProfessorChina Foreign Affairs University
Infrastructure Connectivity: Thinking big, Starting Small
One Importance1
Two Features2
Three Challenges3
Four Efforts4
1 One Importance
Priority for development
1 One Importance
Chinese: Build roads before you get rich.
1 One Importance
Top one Importance of InfrastructureEconomic growthPoverty reductionSocial employments… …
Infrastructure: precondition for connectivityHigh Quality: guarantee for connectivity
2 Two Features
2.1 Unbalance
2.2 Insufficiency
2 Two Features
2.1 Unbalance
Different countriesDifferent types of infrastructure
2 Two Features
2.2 Insufficiency
3 Three Challenges
3.1 Physical Connectivitydifferent standards
3.2 Institutional Connectivitydiverse policies
3.3 Financinghuge gap
3 Three Challenges
3.1 Physical Connectivitydifferent standards
The EN EurocodesJapanese Industrial StandardsChinese Standards… …
(incompatibility of rail gauges in different countries)
3 Three Challenges
3.2 Institutional Connectivitydiverse policies
Border crossings and customs proceduresLack of harmonized regulatory frameworkTrade barriers
3 Three Challenges3.3 Financing
huge gap
4 Four Efforts
4.1 Recognition of diversification
4.2 Communication & coherence
4.3 Effective financing
4.4 Quality & sustainability
4 Four Efforts
4.1 Recognition of diversification
Seek common points while reservingdifferences
Fully respect national attributesSuccess of ASEANLessons from TPPProgress in BRI & RCEP
4 Four Efforts
4.2 Communication & coherence
Market AccessTrade Facilitation AgreementSingle window
Pre-establishment national treatment & negative list
4 Four Efforts
4.3 Effective financing
Lean, Clean, Green (AIIB)PPP
4 Four Efforts
4.4 Quality & sustainability
4 Four Efforts
4.4 Quality & sustainability
e.g. Jakarta-Bandung High Speed RailwayChina Railway ExpressPort of Piraeus
