Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a top-level design of foreign policy proposed by China’s President Xi in 2013. In order to achieve the joint development in Eurasian countries, BRI developed multifold cooperation and placed an emphasis on the area of infrastructure.

The Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy (PRCEE), Ministry of Environmental Protection, P. R. China and Duke Kunshan has established the “PRCEE-Duke Kunshan Joint Laboratory on Quantitative Environmental Policy Analysis” (“the Lab”).

The 7th of April 2017 also marks the establishment of the Green Finance Initiative (GFI) at Duke Kunshan University. The GFI aims to enhance the effectiveness of green-finance policies and practices in China. In order to achieve this objective the GFI will facilitate a number of events, which will allow for a structured exchange of ideas among leading policy makers, academics and corporate executives to generate a relevant research