Institutional-economic-cultural adaptability of overseas railway construction: A case study of Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway

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作者：
Wang C. [1 ,2 ]
Xie Y. [1 ,2 ]
Chen P. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Li X. [1 ,2 ]
机构：
[1] Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing
[2] College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
[3] Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing
来源：
Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica | 2020年 / 75卷 / 06期
关键词：
Adaptability; Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway; Balance system; Railway technology; Spanning transfer;
D O I：
10.11821/dlxb202006006
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摘要：
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. © 2020, Science Press. All right reserved.
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页数：14
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