Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has accurately grasped the general development trend of the times and the overall situation at home and abroad, and put forward a series of new concepts, ideas and strategies with Chinese characteristics, embodying the spirit of the times and leading the progress of human society with far-sighted vision and courage to oversee the overall situation. In the era of globalization, from the proposal of "a community with a shared future for mankind" to the inclusion of the concept of "building a community with a shared future for mankind" written into United Nations resolutions, the Chinese nation has contributed Chinese wisdom, Chinese solutions and Chinese strength to world peace and development. In the fall of 2013, during his visit to Kazakhstan and Indonesia, President Xi Jinping put forward major initiatives to jointly build the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. This is a major measure to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and it is also the exploration and practice of building a community of interests, destiny and responsibility between China and countries along the "Belt and Road" and the world as a community of political mutual trust, economic integration and cultural tolerance. The road to a great power begins in the surrounding countries, and the neighboring countries are the starting point of major country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China stressed that China should deepen its relations with neighboring countries in accordance with the concept of sincerity, sincerity and tolerance, and the diplomatic policy of treating neighbors as good neighbors and taking neighbors as partners, and strengthen solidarity and cooperation with developing countries by adhering to the correct concept of righteousness and interests and the concept of true affinity. 7036573 at present, the "Belt and Road" initiative has shifted from the "capitalization" of planning and layout to the stage of intensive cultivation, and the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind has begun to bear fruit. In promoting the construction of the "Belt and Road", Yunnan has the unique geographical advantage of shouldering the "two oceans" (Pacific and Indian Oceans) and facing "Sanya" (Southeast Asia, South Asia and West Asia), and is an important node of the "Belt and Road" construction. Focusing on the "Belt and Road" initiative and General Secretary Xi Jinping's "three orientations" for Yunnan's development, Yunnan University strives to build the university into a comprehensive, international and research-oriented first-class university based on the southwest frontier of the motherland and facing South and Southeast Asia. In September 2017, the university was selected as one of the 42 world-class universities in China, and Professor Lin Wenxun, Secretary of the Party Committee of the University (then president), proposed "the construction of comprehensive database of countries along the 'Belt and Road'" as one of the major projects of philosophy and social sciences of the school. In March 2018, the school officially launched the "Comprehensive Database Construction of Countries along the 'Belt and Road'" project. First, proactive service and integration into national development strategies. The project aims to build a unique, innovative and practical "Comprehensive Survey Database of Countries along the Belt and Road" and a data release platform by carrying out a comprehensive survey of employees of Chinese-funded enterprises and host countries in countries along the "Belt and Road", forming a series of academic and decision-making consulting research results, better meeting the practical needs of major national strategies and peripheral diplomacy, and comprehensively serving the "Belt and Road" initiative and General Secretary Xi Jinping's "three positioning" for Yunnan's development. The second is to promote the construction of the school's first-class university. The implementation of this project will help to enhance the construction and development of ethnology, political science, history, economics, sociology and other disciplines in the school; Mobilize teachers and students of non-lingua franca (especially South and Southeast Asian languages) to participate in research and research, and improve the scientific research ability and level of non-lingua franca talents; Write decision-making consulting reports based on data analysis to promote the construction of new think tanks in schools; Actively carry out exchanges with teachers and students of partner universities in target countries and local employees of Chinese-funded enterprises, and promote international cooperation and people-to-people exchanges in schools. Since the launch of the project, the school has made every effort to ensure the organizational structure, project funding, policy measures and human resources. After more than two years of hard work, the first wave of the "Overseas Chinese Enterprises and Employees Survey", which gathered the hard work of many teachers and students, was successfully completed. The survey has the following characteristics: First, it is a collective effort and attaches great importance to project research. The school has established a project leadership group with Secretary Lin Wenxun as the team leader, Yang Zeyu, Zhang Li, Ding Zhongtao, Zhao Qihua and Li Chenyang as the deputy team leaders, and leaders of various functional departments as members. The office of the leading group is located in the Social Science Division, with the Director of the Social Science Division as the director of the office, Kong Jianxun as the full-time deputy director, Chen Ying and Xu Qinghong as the technical backbones, and Professor Gan Li of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Professor Qiu Zeqi of Peking University, Professor Zhao Yaohui of Peking University and Professor Zhai Kun of Peking University as special experts to coordinate and guide all aspects of project preparation, research and output. The second is internal and external alliance and bringing together all parties to advance. In the construction of the comprehensive survey database of country studies, our experts have rich practical experience, and have won a number of major bidding projects of the National Social Science Fund related to the "Belt and Road" and major research projects of the Ministry of Education by relying on the comprehensive survey of country studies, which has laid the foundation for the investigation and research of this project. The Institute of International Relations, the Institute of South Asian and Southeast Asian Studies, the School of Economics, the School of Ethnology and Sociology, the School of Foreign Chinese, the School of Government Management, and other faculties and research institutes provide strong support in questionnaire surveys, non-lingua franca talents, and domestic and foreign data collection. At the same time, experts from Peking University, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Guangxi University for Nationalities and other relevant units, economic and commercial offices of Chinese embassies and consulates in various countries, Chinese-funded enterprise associations, enterprise representative offices, and many overseas central enterprises, local state-owned enterprises and private enterprises have provided selfless support and assistance. The third is to have the courage to explore and innovate overseas research models. In the early stage of the investigation, some well-known domestic survey experts pointed out in consultation that the construction of large-scale overseas survey databases is rare in China, and it is a difficult task to carry out unprecedented comprehensive investigations in many overseas countries. On the one hand, in the initial preparatory stage, the project office faced technical problems and practical problems such as cross-border research quality control, cross-border data network backhaul, multilingual questionnaire design, multi-country currency measurement unification, and multinational education systems and ethnic and religious differences. On the other hand, before and after the overseas investigation, teachers and students not only faced difficulties such as external liaison, visa application, and field research, but also encountered the threat of earthquakes, malaria, terrorist attacks and other emergencies during the investigation. However, the project team overcame various difficulties and innovated the management and practice mode of transnational research, and the hundreds of teachers and students who participated in the survey successfully completed this open source, innovative and unique investigation task after more than two years of solid work. The fourth is to pay attention to quality and ensure the value of investigation and research. UNOPS conducted several rounds of training for national research teams, emphasizing investigators' proficiency in online survey operating systems, questionnaire content, and survey interview techniques; For the data transmitted back, background quality control personnel familiar with the host's Chinese or English are equipped to form a three-in-one quality control system of "before, during and after the investigation" to ensure the authenticity and reliability of overseas survey data. After the data collection is completed, the research teams of various countries immediately carry out data analysis and research, and form the report "Enterprise Gathering Silk Road: Survey on the High-quality Development of Overseas Chinese Enterprises", which truly shows the operation and development of overseas Chinese enterprises, financing and competition, corporate image and corporate social responsibility fulfillment, as well as the working environment, employment and income of employees in the host country, and the cognition of Chinese enterprises and China's national image. The whole survey embodies the wisdom and sweat of more than 700 teachers and students at home and abroad (of which more than 300 are teachers and students of Yunnan University). "Gathering Silk Road: Survey on the High-quality Development of Overseas Chinese Enterprises" is one of the landmark achievements of "Comprehensive Database Construction of Countries along the 'Belt and Road'". The first batch of this project is composed of 20 national research teams, divided into 4 areas coordinated by special personnel, of which Kong Jianxun is responsible for Southeast Asia, Bi Shihong is responsible for South Asia, Zhang Yonghong is responsible for Africa, and Wu Lei is responsible for the Middle East. The leaders of the 20 country research teams were Zou Chunmeng (Thailand), Bi Shihong (Vietnam), Fang Yun (Laos), Kong Jianxun and He Lin (Myanmar), Chen Ying (Cambodia), Li Tao (Singapore), Liu Peng (Philippines), Yang Xiaoqiang (Indonesia), Xu Qinghong (Malaysia), Liu Shu (India), Ye Hailin (Pakistan), Feng Libing (Nepal), Hu Xiaowen (Sri Lanka), Zou Yingmeng (Bangladesh), Liu Xuejun (Turkey), Zhu Xiongguan (Saudi Arabia), Xiangyun Li (Tanzania), Quanxi Lin (Djibouti), Dong Zhao (South Africa) and Jiamei Zhang (Kenya). The head of the country research team is also the cover author of the country survey report. In the future, we will continue to promote the "construction of comprehensive database of countries along the 'Belt and Road'" to continuously expand in depth, breadth and height, and strive to build it into a well-known brand of comprehensive social survey at home and abroad. Since the implementation of the project, although the project office and national research teams have made every effort to complete the investigation and writing tasks, due to the limitations of subjective and objective conditions, omissions, mistakes and regrets are inevitable. Editorial Board of "Comprehensive Database Construction Series for Countries along the "Belt and Road", March 2020（AI翻译）