Research On Co-Evolution Path For International Construction Engineering Industry

Chinese international construction industry has been through rapid development in half a century. Chinese international contractors (CICs) initially implemented economic aid projects and nowadays can independently complete construction general contract and other forms of contract. Their markets also range from a small number of Asian ones to the worldwide more than 180 countries and regions. However, a variety of complex factors will influence its development and few studies have focused on the development process of Chinese international engineering construction industry (CIECI). Therefore, this paper reviews the development process of the CIECI and builds the CIECI co-evolution route referring to co-evolution theory in biology which has a strong ability to integrate and also based on the relevant literatures, statistics and policies. This paper analysizes the CIECI co-evolution route from the perspectives of self-organization co-evolution, co-evolution among enterprises and co-evolution between enterprises and environment. Then this paper also verifies the co-evolution mechanism of the CIECI co-evolution route in the way of establishing corresponding mathematical model and applying Matlab/Simulink software to simulating the size of different populations under the CIECI co-evolution route. In this paper, a new perspective has been built to explore co-evolution path for CIECI, revealing its co-evolution laws and characteristics, guiding China international engineering contracting industry grows with high quality and providing a reference for other countries to promote the development of the international engineering construction industry in the future.