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On Coupling And Coordination Evaluation Of Land-Sea Trade Channels In The Belt And Road, Xiaolin Lan, Guozheng Lan

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The Belt and Road is a road of land-sea linkage. Trade channels are the key to land-sea linkages, and it is of great practical significance to study the coupling and coordination of them. Taking the nine provinces and cities along the Belt and Road in China from 2007 to 2018 as samples, this work empirically studies the coupling and coordination of land-sea trade channels, and evaluates and analyzes their development level, development speed, and regional differences. Research shows that:the land and sea areas of most provinces and cities are unevenly affected by the Belt and Road Initiative, and there are …