Security Review of Foreign Investment in China: A Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Literature Commentary
Keywords:
Security review, foreign investment, research network, China, CiteSpace.Abstract
The rapid change of global foreign investment security review situation proposes higher theoretical research requirements for the construction and improvement of China’s foreign investment security review system. With the help of visualization software CiteSpace, this study selects 304 high-quality documents in CNKI database that are closely related to national security review of foreign investment during the ten years from the formal establishment of the security review system of foreign investment and mergers and acquisitions from 2011 to 2021, analyzes the research hotspots, summarizes the research patterns, and builds a research network. Research network. The study finds that the current research in this field still has the problems of unstable cooperation network, narrow research scope, insufficient attention to domestic theories and practices, and insufficient innovation in research content, which is not conducive to promoting the scientific and reasonable development of the research in the field of security review of foreign investment. The study concludes that subsequent research in this area should focus on the improvement of the domestic normative system for foreign investment review, security review in the field of intellectual property rights, and the interface with cybersecurity review and data security review, so as to improve the capacity of national security review of foreign investment and safeguard national security.
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