New Silk Road and Transformation of Environmental Institutions

Abstract

" 24. Improving the ecological compensation mechanism The obligations and rights of the protectors and beneficiaries of the ecological services shall be defined in a scientific manner so as to speed up the process of forming a mechanism which charges beneficiaries of ecological services and people who incur environment destructions to get environment-protectors reasonably compensated. Deepening reform of the fiscal and tax system shall be studied, transfer payment mechanism shall be improved, and existing ecocompensation channels shall be combined and regulated in an effort to increase the transfer payments to major ecological function zones as well as improve the basic public service step by step. A trans-regional ecocompensation system shall be established which will lead to the compensation from the regions benefiting from the ecological services to regions providing such services, or from the lower streams to the upper streams through ways like financial subsidy, industrial relocation, talents-training, and cooperation of construction projects. "

Formation of Transport Infrastructure in Siberia: Historical Experience and Future Development

“…In the initiative implementation, China sees a direct link with its historical past following its traditional soft power approach in relations with neighbors [16]. A number of Russian experts drew attention to environmental aspects of the initiative; the issue is in the degree of nature damage from the increase in traffic load and the construction of numerous infrastructure facilities [17]. Perhaps, the authors are right to some extent speaking about the possibility of China to therethrough become one of the world leaders [18].…”