• Acta Geographica Sinica
  • Vol. 75, Issue 6, 1170 (2020)
Chengjin WANG1、1、2、2、*, Yongshun XIE1、1、2、2, Peiran CHEN1、1、2、2、3、3, and Xumao LI1、1、2、2
Author Affiliations
  • 1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China;
  • 1.中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所,北京 100101;
  • 2. College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
  • 2.中国科学院大学资源与环境学院,北京 100049;
  • 3. Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
  • 3.北京师范大学地理科学学部,北京 100875
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    DOI: 10.11821/dlxb202006006 Cite this Article
    Chengjin WANG, Yongshun XIE, Peiran CHEN, Xumao LI. Institutional-economic-cultural adaptability of overseas railway construction: A case study of Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway[J]. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2020, 75(6): 1170 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The development of a country at a certain stage is an outcome of a long-term historical accumulation process, which forms a mutually adaptive state of development among the main national factors such as institution, economic, cultural and technological systems. And the technology transfer breaking through the original level will cause a disorder among the institutional-economic-cultural-technological systems (IECT system), and produce the frictional effect of technology-environment. This paper constructed a conceptual model on the complex system among the institution, economy, culture and technology, and analyzed its major features. Then, we simplified the above model into railway-institution-economic-cultural model (RIEC system) and probed the adaptive mechanism between railway and institutional-economic-cultural system. Furthermore, we explored the institutional-economic-cultural adaptability of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway. This article insists that Ethiopia and Djibouti had not experienced the large-scale industrialization. As an electrified railway, the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway is a "spanning transfer" of the technology and there is a misplacement between this railway and the developing stage of Ethiopia and Djibouti. And the construction and operation of this railway brought out an obvious challenge for the institutional-economic-cultural development of these two countries, which resulted in the inadaptability of local institutional, economic and cultural system, and the unbalance of RIEC system. This study can provide a scientific guidance for China's enterprises to construct railways and spread China's railway standard in the world especially in the less-developed countries.
    Chengjin WANG, Yongshun XIE, Peiran CHEN, Xumao LI. Institutional-economic-cultural adaptability of overseas railway construction: A case study of Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway[J]. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2020, 75(6): 1170
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