从“走出去”到共建绿色“一带一路”：中国水电产业的非洲实践

人文社科荣誉学会系列讲座 第43期

讲座主题Topic：

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

摘要 Abstract:

新世纪以来，中国水电产业不断拓展海外业务，是非洲水电开发的重要推动者和实践者。本报告聚焦过去20年间中国水电产业在非洲的工程实践和市场探索，基于在加纳、埃塞俄比亚和肯尼亚等的实地调研，从地理学视角解读中国水电产业非洲实践中的政治、经济和技术杂糅。研究发现，围绕水电开发的中非合作，以大型可再生能源基础设施建设的战略耦合为切入点，能够促进多元主体、多角度、全方位的“共商共建共享”，有机会推动东道国的绿色可持续发展。然而，中国水电建设企业的具体工程实践和业务探索活动，通常受制于东道国和第三国利益群体的参与及其关联性，也不可避免地受到“水”的环境社会嵌入性以及在制度和行为层面的路径依赖的影响。

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.

主讲人Speaker：

韩笑，河海大学公共管理学院副教授（青年教授），于墨尔本大学获博士学位，兼任墨尔本大学亚洲研究院荣誉研究员。主要从事有关水管理和农政变迁的人文地理与资源管理交叉研究。近年关注绿色丝绸之路建设，尤其是中国在非洲国家（如加纳、埃塞俄比亚等）参与基础设施工程建设的实践及影响。在Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Political Geography, Geoforum, World Development, The Journal of Peasant Studies 等国际知名期刊发表论文十余篇，主持及参与国家自科基金课题4项，并获得美国地理学家协会（AAG）年会中国地理学最佳学生论文奖（2018）

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. She has for a decade been investigating the practices and outcomes of Chinese dam building in Africa, informed by fieldwork in Ghana, Ethiopia and Kenya. Her publications have appeared in prestigious journals such as Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Political Geography, Geoforum, World Development, The Journal of Peasant Studies, among others. She is the recipient of best student paper (2018) in the Chinese Geography Group, the American Association of Geographers.

信息Information：

时间: 2023 年12月5日（周二） 16:30 - 18:00

Time: 2023 December 5, Tuesday, 16:30 - 18:00

地点：南方科技大学人文社科院C栋102

Venue: C102, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, SUSTech

主讲语言：中英双语

Language：Chinese & English