作为经济全球化和区域经济一体化的重要经济现象，自由经济区已成为促进中国经济发展的增长极和制度创新的重要平台。改革开放三十多年来，中国经济发展进入总量大，增长放缓的新常态，依靠投资、出口和消费拉动的发展方式面临产能过剩、成本上升、资源与能源保障以及环境保护的压力与挑战。本课题依据经济地理、区域经济和贸易理论，在分析中国经济增长方式与对外投资现状基础上梳理国内外有关自由经济区理论与实证研究，在亚洲、欧洲和非洲各选择1-2个境外自由经济区作为典型案例进行对比分析；并通过统计数据、访谈、问卷采集数据，提炼科学问题；利用层次分析和模糊综合评价方法对典型境外自由经济区效益与风险进行评价；在此基础上，分析论证建立中国境外自由经济区模式与路径。该研究对中国主动推动全球化，深化国家“走出去”与“一带一路”发展战略，推动经济发展转型、对外直接投资、自由贸易区理论研究与经济地理学学科发展具有重要应用与探索意义。

Working as an important phenomenon of economic globalization and regional economic integration, the Free Economic Zones (FEZs) have become the growth poles in promoting Chinese economic development and a significant platform for institutional reform.Thirty years since the implementation of the reform and open-door policy, China’s economy presents a picture of abundance in total amount but a slowdown in growth. Pulled by investment, export, consumption, the economy of China is now confronting both the challenge and pressure in the face of excess capacity, cost rises, resources and energy guarantee and environmental protection. In the light of economic geography, regional economic and trade theory, relative theories and empirical studies concerning Free Economic Zones as well as the research target, and on the basis of analysis on growth mode and FDI of China, this study chose a sample of 1-2 Oversea Free Economic Zones to make a comparative analysis in Asia, Europe and Africa and took Oversea Free Economic Zones’ benefits and risks for evaluation by means of Analytic Hierarchy Process and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. By analyzing and demonstrating the statistical, interview and collective data obtained from questionnaire, much efforts have been made to explore a new path to Oversea Free Economic Zones. The research is an asset to driving economic globalization, to deepening national “Going Out” and “One Belt and One Road” development strategy, to promoting the economic development transformation, foreign direct investment, and to improving study on Free Trade Zone Theory and Economic Geography.