从“走出去”到共建绿色“一带一路”:中国水电产业的非洲实践
Unpacking Chinese Dam Building in Africa: A Geographical Perspective
Time & Date: 16:00-17:30, 4 December 2023 (Monday)
Venue: TB 555
主持人Host:
党和苹
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Heping Dang, Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
讲者简介Biography :
韩笑,河海大学公共管理学院副教授(青年教授)
Han Xiao, Associate Professor at School of Public Administration,
Hohai University
Dr. Xiao Han is an Associate Professor at School of Public Administration, Hohai University and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her research intersects the fields of human geography and resource management, with attention mainly paid to water management and agrarian change.
Since the turn of the century, the Chinese dam industry has been building large dams across developing countries in Asia and Africa, taking up more than half of the share in the global market. This study offers a geographical interpretation of goals, practices and outcomes of Chinese dam building in Africa over the past two decades. Based on opensource data and fieldwork in Ghana, Ethiopia and Kenya, the study finds that participating in African dam construction, Chinese financiers and corporations have divergent priorities but interlocking goals, and that although their practices are mainly informed by their goals, the Chinese activities overseas are affected and challenged by the interplay with external technocratic and political influences which sometimes lead to uncertain consequences. Project-level practices further demonstrate that Chinese engagement with Africa is a global enterprise, in which players come from China, the recipient, and other countries, elaborated in a path dependent way but subject to the spatial embeddedness of specific projects.