China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) provides a window of opportunity for the Belt and Road (B&R) countries to solve their transportation challenges and achieve green economic growth. This study examines the causal relationship between China’s OFDI, transport, and green economic growth in 63 B&R countries from 2005 to 2019 using system GMM estimators. The empirical results indicate that there is a multifarious relationship between these factors. China’s OFDI can effectively facilitate the transport infrastructure construction of host countries, which will spur green economic growth. Moreover, the B&R countries with transport and green economic growth gap are more likely to contribute to China’s OFDI “attractiveness.” These conclusions provide a policy basis for the B&R countries to attract China’s OFDI, develop adequate transportation infrastructure, and enhance sustainable green economic growth.

<abstract> <p>Interconnection is the priority direction of the Belt and Road initiative, which can provide substantial assistance to win-win cooperation. This study establishes a new indicator system from the five dimensions of policy, infrastructure, trade, finance, and people-to-people, evaluates the connect index of 63 Belt and Road countries from 2013 to 2020 based on the DEMATEL-ANP method which removes the potential subjective interference and interaction between indicators, and predicts the trend of the connect index by using the grey model. The findings indicate that the five dimensions of the Belt and Road connectivity have unevenly developed, among which the policy coordination has achieved the least. Singapore, Russia, and Malaysia have the highest connect index, and we can find that the 10 countries with the highest connect index are basically from East Asia &amp; Pacific and Europe &amp; Central Asia, which possess large economic and geographical differences. Moreover, there are 17 "omission areas" characterized by low national income, poor infrastructure, low population density, and small land areas along the Belt and Road. Finally, the Silk Road Economic Belt is facing structural imbalances in connectivity, and the relation features "proximity but not affinity" between China and its neighboring countries. These conclusions are friendly cautions and have constructive policy implications for the Belt and Road countries to achieve high-quality interconnection.</p> </abstract>

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Under the background of the comprehensive promotion of ideological and political theories teaching in all course (IPTTIAC), the professional courses of ideological and political education should implement the new curriculum view and inject ideological and political education elements into curriculum teaching. The teaching of "Comparison of Ideological and Political Education" should analyze the teaching objectives of the course and students' learning situation carefully, pay attention to refute the theory of diluting ideology, affirm the comparative advantages of China's ideological and political education and guide students to think about how to improve the effectiveness of ideological and political education in China through comparison. In teaching, it is necessary to explain a country's ideological and political education in combination with its history, culture and system. Online and offline mixed teaching methods can be used to carry out teaching. Setting up thematic teaching and guiding students to learn independently are also good methods. The paper attempts to use survey and comparative analysis methods to conduct research, in order to better carry out the IPTTIAC work in the curriculum of "Comparison of Ideological and Political Education".