以实正名:中国与中东国家的基础设施合作

Let Facts Talk:On China's Infrastructure Cooperation with the Middle East

基础设施合作是中国与中东国家整体合作的重要组成部分,也是提升发展中国家基础设施建设水平、实现经济社会可持续发展的重要路径。中国与中东国家的基础设施合作在实践中呈现相互依存日益紧密、合作环境日益优化、项目类别日益丰富、合作主体日益多元、融资渠道日益拓宽等特点。中国企业秉持正确义利观,实行市场化运作。中国与中东国家的基础设施合作彰显包容型、互利型、发展型之特色,与排他型、逐利型、政治型的西方同中东国家基础设施合作特征形成鲜明对比。就合作特色而言,中国的基础设施合作重“硬件”,而西方国家基础设施合作重“软件”,双方在中东国家的基础设施建设项目具有一定互补性。中国与中东国家的基础设施合作取得了丰硕的成果,但仍面临政治、安全、法律和舆情等多重风险,需要从加强风险管控、提升话语影响力、促进双向互动、探索三方合作空间等4个维度加以应对,推动传统基建存量与“新基建”增量共同发展,造福中东地区国家和人民。

China's infrastructure construction in the Middle East is an important element of China's overall collaboration with the Middle East,an important path for China to promote common prosperity of developing countries,and an important foundation to build a community of common destiny for all mankind.This article combines quantitative and qualitative research methods,and finds that China's infrastructure cooperation with the Middle East presents five trends:the improvement of cooperation mechanisms,strengthening of cooperation between the two sides,increase of project categories,diversification of collaborative agents,and broadening of financing forms.We argue that China's infrastructure collaboration with the Middle East is characterized by the multipolar,development-oriented,mutual benefit ideas,whereas Western countries'infrastructure diplomacy is characterized by the unipolar,security-oriented,and self-interested ideas.At present,China's infrastructure cooperation with the Middle East countries has achieved fruitful results,but it still faces multiple risks such as political risks,security risks,legal and public opinion risks.In this context,it is important to deal with the risks from four dimensions:enhancing the controllability of risks,strengthening China's discourse influence,promoting two-way interaction,and promoting the tripartite cooperation system.