School of Humanities and Social Science Division of Social Science 208 China/Africa Links Project Supervisor: SAUTMAN Barry / SOSC Student: CHENG Yu / GCS Course: UROP2100, Fall This progress report is part of HKUST's Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program and is targeted on the China- Oceania Links research, under the guidance and supervision of Professor Barry Sautman and Professor Yan Hairong. This report aims to summarise the contribution to the project over the semester, with an emphasis on the political and economic nature of China's relations with countries around the world, concentrating on the trade and investment connections among the bilateral relationships, the agricultural cooperation as another focus, and the evaluation of such connections by international public opinion. This progress report focuses on the relationship between China and the countries of Oceania. The research methodology is mainly a documentary review and data collection, drawing on data from the World Bank, WTO and specific governments to obtain an overview of the political and economic status in which each Oceania countries, measuring the degree of economic dependence between China and that specific Oceania country, referring to official treaties, documents and press reports to ascertain different patterns of agricultural cooperation between China and Oceania countries, and finally collecting a wide range of data to suggest the degree of Chinese land investment or land holding in Oceania countries. China/Africa Links Project Supervisor: SAUTMAN Barry / SOSC Student: QIAO Tianyi / GCS Course: UROP1100, Spring Under the project, I worked to gather information related to China-Africa agrobusiness links and drafted a full-length country report on South Africa. I made flexible use of both Chinese and English sources to investigate the nature of cooperation between countries, seeking to account for the cooperation progress chronologically. I also launched primary interviews to related bodies to get first-hand information. In addition, I compiled data made available by factiva to record and trace localization process of Chinese companies and projects in African countries for future references on investigating the diagram between China and Africa. Valuable lessons on how to gather data, conduct individual research, as well as sort information for use were obtained.
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