Sustainability Governance of China's Global Infrastructure Investments (SGAIN) is a £1.7 million research project awarded to Dr Yixian Sun at the University of Bath by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. SGAIN's seven-year study programme integrate a range of innovative mixed methods to assess China's efforts to promote green development through overseas infrastructure investments and also environmental and social impacts of key Chinese projects in different host contexts across the Global South. Our research will advance understanding of China's overseas engagement and its influence on global sustainable development and help policy practitioners develop suitable strategies to align international investments with local sustainability needs. To offer timely policy recommendations on sustainable infrastructure investments, our SCAIN team will actively engage with a range of stakeholders in the Global South, including international organizations, national and local governments, civil society and businesses.

The project team includes leading researchers across the globe in the fields of international relations, environmental governance and development studies based at Fudan University (China), Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia), University of Dhaka (Bangladesh), Sustainable Development Policy Institute (Pakistan), University of Oxford (UK), and National University of Singapore (Singapore). Our stakeholder partners include ISEAL Alliance, Asia Society Policy Institute and various government institutions.