Director
Email: mhchan@chuhai.edu.hk
Message from the Director
The year 2024 has been a positive one. Despite turmoil in the international arena triggering multiple local and regional conflicts, and despite considerable uncertainties surrounding economic development in most countries, connectivity among nations and peoples continues to progress. The Belt and Road Initiative has overcome conflicts, sanctions, and certain obstacles. China’s railway freight services- a symbol of both connectivity and the Belt and Road Initiative, remain robust and continue to expand. The success of the China-Laos Railway demonstrates the transformation and prosperity that connectivity can bring, showing that even a least-developed landlocked country, largely overlooked by most developed nations and international organizations, can benefit. The Belt and Road Initiative and the connectivity it fosters have become both a source of hope and a practical measure for economic recovery and growth in most countries- much like the historic ancient Silk Road.
The Institute has been fortunate to receive new funding support, which has allowed us to consolidate and begin expanding teaching and research related to Belt and Road countries. Our two master’s programmes enroll 280 students each year, and we are supported by a rapidly growing and enthusiastic alumni community. They help promote our programmes, refine the curriculum, and expand academic networks and business understanding for everyone associated with the Institute.
Our goal is to globalize the Institute, along with its programmes and activities. It will not merely be a local institution in Hong Kong, but one that represents and connects Hong Kong to the global system created through the Belt and Road Initiative. We have already assembled an international faculty team and will admit more overseas students, while organizing academic activities for the global community. Just like our launched journal, The Hong Kong Belt and Road Research Review, the Institute consistently defines its vision and mission from a global perspective.
院長寄語
2024年是美好的一年，儘管在國際領域的混亂引發了多場局部和區域戰爭，而大多數國家的經濟發展也存在巨大的不確定性，但各國和各民族的互聯互通仍持續取得進展。一帶一路倡議克服了衝突、制裁和部分阻礙，象徵互聯互通和一帶一路倡議的中國鐵路貨運服務依然強勁並不斷擴展。中國—老撾鐵路的成功展示了互聯互通所能帶來的變化和繁榮的方向，即使是一個被大多數發達國家和國際組織所拋弃的最不發達的內陸國家也能受益，一帶一路倡議及其所帶來的互聯互通正成爲大多數國家經濟復甦和增長的希望和措施，就像歷史悠久的古絲網之路一樣。
研究院非常幸運地獲得了新資金支持，得以鞏固並開始擴大有關一帶一路國家的教學和研究。我們兩個碩士課程每年招收280名學生，同時還有一個迅速擴展的熱情校友社群，他們幫助我們推廣課程、改進課程內容，並為所有與研究院有關的人擴展學術聯繫和提升商業理解。
我們的計劃是使研究院及其課程和活動實現全球化，它將不僅是香港的一所本地機構，而是一所代表並連接香港與一帶一路所創建的全球體系的機構。我們已經組建了一個國際教授團隊，並將招收更多的海外學生，爲全球社會舉辦學術活動。研究院就像我們推出的期刊《香港一帶一路研究評論》一樣，始終以全球視野來定義我們的願景和使命。
