Hing Kai Chan is Professor of Operations Management, Nottingham University Business School China, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Faith Ka Shun Chan is an Associate Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Nottingham Ningbo China.David O’Brien is a Lecturer in the East Asian Politics Section of the Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

• Recent Trends on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Research.- The Economics of the Belt and Road Initiative.- New research direction of the joint sea-and-land transportation of the Ningbo Port under the Belt and Road Initiative.- International Market Integration in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative.- Innovative Talent Development in Chinese Universities under the Belt and Road Initiative.- Opportunities and Risks along the New Silk Road: Perspectives and Perceptions on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.- Players or Spectators? Central Asia’s Role in BRI.- China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the South China Sea Disputes: Toward a New Mutual Deterrence Equilibrium.- The Making of the Finnish Polar Silk Road: Status in Spring 2019.- Between Adoption and Resistance: China’s Efforts of ‘Understanding the West’, the Challenges of Transforming Monarchical Legitimacy and the Rise of Oriental Exceptionalism, 1860 to 1910.- Port City on the Maritime Silk Road: Ningbo’s City Branding under the Theme of Intellectuals.- Desertification and its prevention along the route of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.- International flows in the Belt and Road Initiative: The Future.

Hing Kai Chan is Professor of Operations Management, Nottingham University Business School China, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Faith Ka Shun Chan is an Associate Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Nottingham Ningbo China.David O’Brien is a Lecturer in the East Asian Politics Section of the Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

• Recent Trends on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Research.- The Economics of the Belt and Road Initiative.- New research direction of the joint sea-and-land transportation of the Ningbo Port under the Belt and Road Initiative.- International Market Integration in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative.- Innovative Talent Development in Chinese Universities under the Belt and Road Initiative.- Opportunities and Risks along the New Silk Road: Perspectives and Perceptions on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.- Players or Spectators? Central Asia’s Role in BRI.- China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the South China Sea Disputes: Toward a New Mutual Deterrence Equilibrium.- The Making of the Finnish Polar Silk Road: Status in Spring 2019.- Between Adoption and Resistance: China’s Efforts of ‘Understanding the West’, the Challenges of Transforming Monarchical Legitimacy and the Rise of Oriental Exceptionalism, 1860 to 1910.- Port City on the Maritime Silk Road: Ningbo’s City Branding under the Theme of Intellectuals.- Desertification and its prevention along the route of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.- International flows in the Belt and Road Initiative: The Future.

Hing Kai Chan is Professor of Operations Management, Nottingham University Business School China, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Faith Ka Shun Chan is an Associate Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Nottingham Ningbo China.David O’Brien is a Lecturer in the East Asian Politics Section of the Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

• Recent Trends on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Research.- The Economics of the Belt and Road Initiative.- New research direction of the joint sea-and-land transportation of the Ningbo Port under the Belt and Road Initiative.- International Market Integration in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative.- Innovative Talent Development in Chinese Universities under the Belt and Road Initiative.- Opportunities and Risks along the New Silk Road: Perspectives and Perceptions on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.- Players or Spectators? Central Asia’s Role in BRI.- China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the South China Sea Disputes: Toward a New Mutual Deterrence Equilibrium.- The Making of the Finnish Polar Silk Road: Status in Spring 2019.- Between Adoption and Resistance: China’s Efforts of ‘Understanding the West’, the Challenges of Transforming Monarchical Legitimacy and the Rise of Oriental Exceptionalism, 1860 to 1910.- Port City on the Maritime Silk Road: Ningbo’s City Branding under the Theme of Intellectuals.- Desertification and its prevention along the route of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.- International flows in the Belt and Road Initiative: The Future.