| Paper description |
In view of the regional economic cooperation and integration, this paper
analyzes the strategic conception of “Silk Road Economic Belt” and “21st Century
Maritime Silk Road”(“One Belt and One Road” for short) raised by the Chinese
people. It firstly discusses the major regional cooperation mechanism and the
evolution of the type in this conception. Secondly, it discusses the competitive
and cooperative relationship between the construction of “One Belt and One Road”
and the current regional cooperation mechanism. Also, the possible effect which
may exert on the construction of the “One Belt and One Road” from the emerging
regional cooperation mechanism is also analyzed. Thirdly, it elaborates on the way
China should adopt to guarantee the smooth implementation of “One Belt and One
Road” by making use of the current regional cooperation mechanisms and
cooperating with the ones that China has not yet participated. The result of this
paper shows that China has been facing with two options currently in the construction
of “One Belt and One Road.” One is through the strategic means of free trade
area, and the other one is through the cooperative means of regional and subregional
combination. From the perspective of the feasibility and the profitability, the
construction of the “One Belt and One Road” should implement an innovative
cooperation model, which, at the current stage, is not a supranational mechanism,
nor a model at the same level with the Customs Union or the Economic Union; it
should be, on the contrary, a platform for friendly cooperation which can provide the countries within the region with better economic exchanges and channel
construction, a new idea and cooperative way to create better conditions and
opportunities for collaboration among different countries, various mechanisms,
and organizations. If conditions are right, it will form a higher and more extensive
regional economic cooperation, including the institutional arrangements of the free
trade area. Thus, this platform will promote the rejuvenation of the Silk Road and
provide direct convenience to the integration of the region. This can also be called
negative integration, a notion raised by Tinbergen, which is a development that
seems to be doing nothing but can actually make contributions proactively. |
(创新港)
