In order to meet the requirement of serving regional development, Belt & Road Institute aims to provide a scientific support for innovation development of Xuzhou by focusing on the strategy problem of reform and opening, combining university, government and corporations. 

The institute relies on the province policy-making advisory research base, philosophy and social science research base, key discipline, preponderant discipline, and outstanding innovation team. It can provide an important scientific support for strategy decision of government, enterprise and public institution by integrating the disciplines of geography, economics, management, and conducting the research of regional planning, national economy, social development planning, urban and rural planning, tourism planning, and land use planning.