Mapping economic links between China and Canada

November 25, 2015

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada recently published a report on the economic ties between Canada and China authored by Harald Bathelt and Peng-fei Li showing that although there is a very large Chinese immigrant community in Canada, economic linkages between the two countries are still quite limited.

In this report, patterns of Canadian investments in China at the cluster and city-region levels, and the ways through which Canadian firms acquire, mobilize, integrate, and generate knowledge through investment networks are explored. The full report is available here.

Harald Bathelt is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Innovation and Governance, Department of Political Science and Department of Geography and Planning. Peng-fei Li is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science.