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This article aims to investigate mutual impacts between China's global investment and maritime transportation system as a primary means for trading since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been launched. This study collected China's global investment data categorized by independent economy entities with featured data, including investment capital, industrial field, and the maritime flows generated from the previous study. The country-level mutual relations in the context of the BRI are formulated and investigated by data-driven geographical visualization methods. The test results reveal both the degree and tendency of China's initiative impacting the global investment and the possible patterns and inertial power of investment on a globally regional initiative, primarily focusing on the concerns and contributions of the maritime transportation system in promoting investment and the BRI. (J Contemp China/GIGA)

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a national strategy proposed by China to strengthen globalization and regional economic integration, connecting the country to the world. The BRI will drive China's ports to expand connectivity through construction and operation along the '21st-Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR)'. At the same time, port governance involves central, provincial and local governments engaging in overseas investment and financing in the context of the BRI. Under the double-level governance of the central and local governments, discrepancies, disjointed actions and gaps inevitably arise between the policies launched by the central and local governments. This article evaluates 14 major coastal ports operating with state-level support and overseas investment. 11 evaluation indexes are determined from the existing development conditions of ports and the economic strength of port cities. Fuzzy clustering method is applied to evaluate and classify the development of the coastal ports in China and to develop a reasonable implementation mode of the 'going global strategy' of the ports. Consequently, it would help policymakers and stakeholders in China deal with the rivalry of provincial governments, alleviate overseas investment risks and strengthen the foreign port chain management along the MSR. (J Contemp China/GIGA)