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Abstract To jointly promoting construction of the Blue Economic Passage leading up to Europe via the Arctic Ocean is a significant part of maritime cooperation within China's “the Belt and Road Initiative”. Given the growing and farreaching impact of climate change in the Arctic, various stakeholders of Arctic affairs have gradually entered the status of complexinterdependence and even derivative-dependency. Driven by strategies, demands and environment, Russia has reached subjective identification with China on shared goals, roles and interests to develop the Arctic sea route, if from the perspective of broad regional governance. This identification also evolved into aligned actions on top-level design, departmental agenda-setting, prioritizing knowledge, mainstreaming enterprises and advocating market approaches. Meanwhile, the harmonization of domestic law with the newly implemented Polar Code, the sovereignty issue of Northern Sea Route, and the uncertain demand for transit transport are potential constraints in the development of the passage.
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