Prim‑Lex Belt and Road: Eight‑Dimensional Restructuring——A Leap from Infrastructure Connectivity to Climate Governance Connectivity

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🔬研究者:The Prim-Lex framework offers a quantifiable model for studying cross-border green infrastructure governance, which can be applied and tested in other regional contexts.

🏢実務担当者:Companies and investors involved in BRI green infrastructure projects can use the diagnostic dimensions to assess risks related to carbon rules, climate adaptation, and benefit distribution.

🏛政策担当者:Policymakers in BRI countries and multilateral institutions can utilize the tiered governance plan to design harmonized carbon rules and climate adaptation standards for cross-border infrastructure.

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has transitioned from its first phase characterized by traditional infrastructure construction such as ports, pipelines, roads, and railways, into a new phase of high-quality development marked by green, digital, and synergistic cooperation. However, green infrastructure is fundamentally a spatial continuum that traverses multiple sovereign states and multiple climate zones, facing three structural challenges in cross-border governance: uncoordinated carbon rules, inconsistent climate adaptation standards, and imbalanced distribution of investment benefits. Based on the eight-dimensional framework of Prim‑Lex theory (Economic Climatology) —— Prim‑Unity·Prim‑Fire (metabolic efficiency of green investment), Two Principles·Yin‑Yang (infrastructure expansion force versus ecological carrying capacity), Three Realms·GC⁴A (cross‑scale integration from international commitments to national planning to project implementation), Four Phenomena·Four Colors (differentiated development stages of Belt and Road countries), Five Elements·Five Models (coupling of metabolic deficit, debt risk, three‑color zoning, natural capital liabilities, and development resilience), Six Dimensions·Six Directions (six‑directional spatial synergy in cross‑border governance), Seven Luminaires·Seven Rhythms (synchronization of infrastructure cycles and development cycles), and Eight Trigrams·Eight Information (exchange efficiency of cross‑border governance information networks) —— this paper systematically diagnoses the cross‑border governance of green infrastructure along the Belt and Road for the first time. This paper originally introduces three new cross‑border governance dimensions into the Six Harmonies model —— the Degree of Harmonization of Cross‑Border Carbon Rules (Ψ_cross‑border), the Degree of Adaptation to Climate Zone Change along the Corridor (Ψ_climate corridor), and the Degree of Equitable Cross‑Regional Distribution of Investment Benefits (Ψ_spatial justice) —— and uses the China‑Laos Railway, the China‑Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), and the ASEAN Power Grid as three empirical cases to diagnose dimension by dimension the eight major “decoherence” pathologies of green infrastructure along the Belt and Road. The research shows that the extended six‑dimensional modulus of the three cases is currently estimated at approximately 0.58—0.72, indicating moderate to severe decoherence. This paper further proposes a “tiered diagnosis and treatment” governance plan and a推进 timetable for the 15th Five‑Year Plan period based on the eight‑dimensional framework, aiming to guide the Belt and Road from “infrastructure connectivity” toward a new paradigm of “climate governance connectivity,” and to provide a quantifiable Prim‑Lex model for green infrastructure governance in the Global South.

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