Jun 30, 2018
Xu Wenhong is Associate Professor at the Institute of Russian,
East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences (CASS). He is also the Deputy Secretary General of
the Belt and Road Center at CASS. The Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences (CASS) is the premier academic organization and
comprehensive research center of the People’s Republic of China in
the fields of philosophy and social sciences.
Professor Xu speaks Chinese, English, and Russian fluently and his
research focus is Sino-Russian economic cooperation. He has visited
over 20 countries as part of his work and has published widely on
the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
In this podcast, Professor Xu discusses how China and Russia can
collaborate under the BRI. In particular, he discusses how China’s
deindustrializing North East provinces (Dongbei) can benefit from
such collaboration.