Dr. CHENG Baozhi is Senior Research Fellow with Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, whose major study fields cover arctic/maritime governance and international & European law. He has published extensively on China’s legal and policy development towards ocean/polar governance in some Chinese leading academic journals and newspapers, and has been invited to present his views on Arctic governance and cooperation at some international occasions such as International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences, Arctic Shipping Forum, Arctic Circle Assembly, Arctic Frontiers Conference, and China-Nordic Think-Tank Roundtable, etc. 

As an English Major, Mr. CHENG obtained his Bachelor Degree of Liberal Arts from Wuhan University in 1998. After working several years, he returned to campus to pursue his Master and Doctoral Degrees of Public International Law from Wuhan University in 2005 and 2009 respectively, and then was enrolled by the current employer, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies as researcher on global governance and international law till present. 

Selected Publications:

Books

On the Interaction of EU and WTO: Law, Policy and Practice, Current Affairs Press, 2015. (Monograph & Doctoral Dissertation)

Climate Change and Arctic Response: Risk Assessment and Game Deduction, China Ocean Press, 2022. (Co-authored, Chapter 1 & 4) 

“Co-Progressiveness of Arctic Governance and the Initiative of Polar Silk Road” in Current Developments in Arctic Law (Vol.7), Lapland University 2019. 

Articles

On the Industry Dimension of Maritime New Productive Force: Concept, Impetus and Pathways, Economic Circle, 2024(5).

On the International Evolution of Blue Finance and China’s Recent Practice, Economic Circle, 2023(6).

On the “Blue Partnership” Initiative under the Context of Global Ocean Governance: Concept Features and Diplomatic Practice, Journal of Boundary and Ocean Research, 2022(4).

On the EU’s Arctic Policy Practice and Its Illumination on China, Journal of Hubei University of Police, 2017(6).

Canada and Arctic Governance: Concept Shaping and Policy Practice, Current World (Dangdai Shijie), 2014 (11). 

On the Functional Transformation of the Arctic Council and China’s Participation, International Forum (Guoji Luntan), 2013(3).

Probing into the Arctic Governance: Chinese Scholars’ Perspective, Pacific Journal (Taipingyang Xuebao), 2012 (10).