Infrastructure Knowledge Exchange

We are pleased to share the findings of an infrastructure investment study, released today by the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) and EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore (EDHECinfra). The global study, which looked to identify investor expectations for the sector, found that investors have an increasing appetite for infrastructure including in emerging markets, with the number of investors looking for exposure to emerging markets set to more than double over the next 3-5 years.

The aim of these Reports is to assist the Chinese government by providing an international perspective on the development of PPPs in China and to make suggestions on ways in which these important reforms could be taken forward – drawing on our own experience in the UK and from around the world.

China is considering ways to attract additional capital to finance investment in railways and Worldwide, private capital has been attracted to the railway sector through a range of mechanisms.

Chinese international contractors attach great importance to corporate social responsibility (CSR), and in recent years have comprehensively promoted social responsibility-concerned ideas and practices.

These guidelines, circulated by the MoF in September 2016, task the finance departments at all levels of government with arranging PPP project preparation, budgetary funding, procurement, budgetary expenditures and revenues, and performance management etc.

These guidelines were circulated by the MoF in November 2014 to promote and apply the private-public partnership (PPP) model in a standard manner. The guidelines apply to regulating activities.

These guidelines, circulated by the MoF in April 2015, promote the orderly implementation of PPP projects by guaranteeing effective performance of contractual obligations by the government, and effectively preventing and controlling fiscal risks.

These guidelines, circulated by the MoF in November 2017, provide the necessary conditions to be satisfied by a PPP project in order to be included in the Project Management Database of the National PPP Integrated Information Platform.

These guidelines, circulated by the MoF in December 2015, guide the project implementing agencies in the preparation of PPP VfM evaluations, and assist the finance departments at various levels in reviewing the PPP VfM evaluations in a well-regulated and orderly way.

This Method regulates the bidding announcement and information publicity activities, to ensure all market participants and the public get equal, convenient and accurate tendering information.

This Method stipulates the basic procedures and main contents of electronic bidding, and further improves the electronic bidding system.

Infrastructure projects to carry out environmental impact assessments to prevent adverse impacts on the environment after project implementation.

It is used to guide the implementation of classification management of the environmental impact assessment of the construction project to prevent adverse impacts on the environment.

ChinaRAP is a collaboration between the International Road Assessment Programme and the Research Institute of Highway (RIOH), Ministry of Transport (MoT). Launched in 2008, seed financial support was provided through the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility by Bloomberg Philanthropies and now ten times that amount is now mobilised by the Chinese Government.

What might one expect for the future of mobility in China in 2030? Mobility is defined as the ability to travel from one location to another, regardless of mode or purpose. RAND researchers used a six-step scenario development process to develop two thought-provoking scenarios that address this question.