Management and Sustainability in the Belt and Road

<p>China’s Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) is an ambitious infrastructure project conceived in 2013 by President Xi Jinping with development and investment initiatives stretching from Asia and Europe that reflect the original Silk Road with business networks through countries such as Afghanistan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan as well as India and Pakistan spanning a route of more than 4000 miles and history that can be dated back more than 2200 years.</p><p>Given the background of China’s unique approach in fighting COVID-19 and against the backdrop of sluggish economic growth innovation and management sustainable development of BRI will be the key and the driving force for the post-pandemic economic recovery of many countries especially as BRI countries now account for nearly 30% of China’s foreign trade and 15% of outward direct investment.</p><p>The vision to create a vast network of railways energy pipelines highways and streamlined border crossings to expand the international use of Chinese currency and improve connectivity to China is good foresight and proved fortuitous when the COVID-19 pandemic came to plague the world and amid the conflicts between the United States and China as well as the war between Russia and Ukraine.</p><p>Since the inception of BRI many books have been written to cover topics ranging from globalization to detailing how China’s business and politics are a major motivation for China’s overseas economic activities with case studies and practices yet few of these books provide a structured approach to the sustainable management of BRI projects. This book is about how to manage the innovation sustainability and business necessary to make BRI work and how to handle the issues problems and crises that may arise in the process. Participants of BRI projects can take on many different roles but ultimately it is team effort and leadership that creates successful projects. Here readers will find guidelines and insights to survive and prosper in a myriad of BRI opportunities and risks. Most important of all this book provides a glimpse of different approaches for success in BRI projects including sustainability environmental issues social and political aspects technology choice of industry project management education and training governance and many more.</p>