The New Silk Road: Seeking Opportunities for Polish Exports in the Chinese Market

Abstract

<jats:p>The paper presents preliminary studies related to the problems of the New Silk Road and its influence on the Polish economy. The aim of the report is to define tendencies in the trade exchange between Poland and China and to evaluate the capacity of Polish exports to the Chinese market. The paper tries to answer the question whether the contemporary structure of Polish exports to the Chinese market allows for the full use of the potential of the Middle Kingdom market. In the study, the indicative trade potential was used.</jats:p>

Looking for the sectoral interdependence: evidence from the Visegrad countries and China

“…There have been only a few studies concentrating on relations between Central and Eastern Europe (including the V4 states) and China so far. Chen (2012), Kong (2013Kong ( , 2014, Cieślik (2014Cieślik ( , 2017 and Matura (2017) focused on the trade and investment relations, not mentioning value added linkages. Szunomár (2014) presents Chinese FDI in the V4 countries before and after the crisis.…”

“…The V4 states have also become an important part of this strategy, due to strategic geographical location of its member countries. Analyzing the current international situation and a growing role of China in the world economy, the V4 states should strengthen the cooperation in many dimensions (Cieślik 2017). When in 2011 China launched a new forum for cooperation with the Central and Eastern European countries (called '16 + 1'), the relations among the V4 and China entered a new chapter of pragmatic cooperation (Deng and Liu 2018).…”