Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 10-the State Council Press Office released a white paper entitled "Building the Belt and Road Together: A Major Practice in Building a Community of Human Destiny" on October 10. The full text is as follows:
Building the "Belt and Road" Together: A Major Practice of Building a Community of Human Destiny
(October 2023)
People’s Republic of China (PRC)
the State Council Information Office
catalogue
foreword
First, it originated in China and belongs to the world.
(A) rooted in history, carry forward the spirit of the Silk Road
(B) in response to reality, solve development problems
(3) Create the future and make the world better.
Second, pave the way for common development and prosperity
(1) Principle: discuss, build and share.
(2) Concept: open, green and clean.
(3) Objectives: high standards, sustainability and benefiting people’s livelihood.
(D) Vision: a happy road to benefit the world
Third, promote all-round and multi-field interconnection
(A) extensive and in-depth policy communication
(2) The connectivity of facilities has begun to take shape.
(3) Smooth, convenient and efficient trade.
(D) increasingly diversified financing.
(5) The people’s hearts have a solid foundation.
(6) Cooperation in new areas has been steadily advanced.
Fourth, inject positive energy into world peace and development
(A) to build a country to bring tangible benefits.
(B) to add vitality to economic globalization
(3) Providing new solutions for improving global governance.
(D) Gathering the power of civilization for the progress of human society
V. Promoting high-quality co-construction of the "Belt and Road" to achieve stability and long-term success.
Concluding remarks
foreword
More than two thousand years ago, our ancestors crossed the grassland desert with the simple desire of friendly exchanges, and opened up the land silk road connecting Asia, Europe and Africa, opening up a great exchange era in the history of human civilization. More than 1000 years ago, our ancestors set sail, crossed the stormy waves, and broke out the Maritime Silk Road connecting the East and the West, opening a new era of human civilization blending.
The ancient Silk Road, which runs through Wan Li for thousands of years, is not only a trade and barter road, but also a civilized exchange road, and has made great contributions to the development and progress of human society. Since the 1980s, the United Nations and some countries have successively put forward the idea of Eurasian Continental Bridge and the Silk Road Revival Plan, reflecting the common aspiration of people of all countries for communication, dialogue, exchanges and cooperation.
In March 2013, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader put forward the concept of building a community of human destiny; In September and October, it was proposed to jointly build the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. Co-constructing the "Belt and Road Initiative" creatively inherits and carries forward the ancient Silk Road, the development achievement of human history and civilization, and endows it with new spirit of the times and humanistic connotation, which provides a practical platform for building a community of human destiny.
In the past 10 years, with the joint efforts of all parties, the "One Belt, One Road" initiative has moved from China to international practice, from concept to action, from vision to reality, from "freehand brushwork" in the layout of articles to "meticulous painting" in intensive cultivation, and has achieved solid and heavy achievements, becoming a popular platform for international public goods and international cooperation.
In the past 10 years, the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has not only brought tangible benefits to relevant countries, but also made positive contributions to promoting the healthy development of economic globalization, solving global development problems and improving the global governance system, opening up a new path for mankind to realize modernization together and promoting the building of a community of human destiny to take root.
In order to introduce the achievements of the "Belt and Road" in the past 10 years, further enhance the understanding of the international community, promote the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road" and make the "Belt and Road" benefit more countries and people, this white paper is hereby issued.
First, it originated in China and belongs to the world.
The world today is in a great change that has never happened in a century, and the development of human civilization is facing more and more problems and challenges. Focusing on the future and overall interests of mankind, China inherits and carries forward the Silk Road spirit, a precious heritage of human civilization, in response to global development and expectations of all countries, and proposes the initiative of jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative. This initiative, connecting history, reality and future, originated in China, facing the world and benefiting all mankind.
(A) rooted in history, carry forward the spirit of the Silk Road
During the Han Dynasty in China around 140 BC, Zhang Qian set out from Chang ‘an, opened the road from the east to the west, and completed the "journey of hollowing out". During the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties in China, the Silk Road on land and at sea developed together and became an important trade route connecting East and West. In the early 15th century, in the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He made seven ocean voyages, which promoted the trade of the Maritime Silk Road. For thousands of years, the ancient Silk Road has been like an endless "artery", spanning the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the Indus and Ganges rivers, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River basins, the birthplaces of Egyptian civilization, Babylonian civilization, Indian civilization and Chinese civilization, the gathering places of Buddhists, Christians and Muslims, and the gathering places of people of different countries and colors, thus promoting the interconnection between countries in Asia and Europe.
As a symbol of exchanges and cooperation between the East and the West, the Millennium Silk Road profoundly shows that countries with different nationalities, beliefs and cultural backgrounds can fully share peace and common development as long as they adhere to unity and mutual trust, equality and mutual benefit, tolerance and mutual learning, and win-win cooperation. The spirit of Silk Road is consistent with the Chinese nation’s beautiful idea of "One World, One Country, Xianning", Chinese’s consistent way of life, and the trend of peace, development, cooperation and win-win in today’s era.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is a big party that cares about the world, and China is a big country that insists on peaceful development. Building the "Belt and Road" together promotes the spirit of Silk Road in the new era, evokes people’s good memories of the past era, and inspires the enthusiasm of countries to achieve interconnection. Building the "Belt and Road" together is not only a tribute to history, but also a reappearance of the grand occasion of "messengers facing each other on the road, business travel is endless" on the ancient Silk Road, and the prosperity of "ships crossing the sea, I don’t know their number" on the sea; It is also to explore the future, draw wisdom and strength from the ancient Silk Road and Silk Road spirit, continue to advance along the historical direction, better integrate the Chinese dream and the world dream, and realize the people of all countries’ desire for civilized exchanges, peace and tranquility, pursuit of common development, and yearning for a better life.
(B) in response to reality, solve development problems
Development is the key to solve all problems, and economic globalization has provided a powerful impetus for world economic development. More than 500 years ago, after the ancient Silk Road was interrupted for more than half a century, the era of great navigation came and fundamentally changed the development pattern of human society. Since modern times, with the scientific and technological revolution and the development of productive forces, economic globalization has become a historical trend. Especially after the 1990s, the rapid development of economic globalization has promoted the great prosperity of trade, the great convenience of investment, the great mobility of personnel and the great development of technology, and made important contributions to the development and progress of human society. However, the economic globalization led by a few countries has not achieved universal development, but has caused the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer, and the gap between the rich and the poor in developed countries and developing countries has become wider and wider. Many developing countries have made little profit or even lost the ability of independent development in economic globalization, making it difficult for them to enter the track of modernization. Individual countries engage in unilateralism, protectionism and hegemonism, and the process of economic globalization encounters countercurrent, and the world economy faces the risk of recession. Problems such as insufficient kinetic energy of global economic growth, imperfect global economic governance system and unbalanced global economic development urgently need to be solved; The situation that world economic development is dominated by a few countries, economic rules are controlled by a few countries, and the fruits of development are exclusively enjoyed by a few countries must be changed.
Building the "Belt and Road" is not only for the development of China, but also for the development of the world. The historical trend of economic globalization is irreversible, and it is impossible for countries to return to the era of isolation and isolation. However, economic globalization is facing new adjustments in form and content, and should develop in a more open, inclusive, inclusive, balanced and win-win direction. China is a beneficiary and contributor of economic globalization. China actively participated in the process of economic globalization, achieved rapid economic development through benign interaction with the world, successfully opened up and promoted Chinese-style modernization, and expanded the path choice of developing countries towards modernization. China’s rapid economic growth and continuous promotion of reform and opening up have provided an important impetus for global economic stability and growth and the development of an open world economy. China is a staunch supporter and defender of economic globalization. Building the "Belt and Road" is highly compatible with the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in terms of concepts, initiatives and goals. It is not only a major measure for China to expand its opening up, but also aims to promote higher-quality development at a higher level and share China’s development opportunities with the world; It is also a Chinese plan to solve the global development problem. It aims to promote the common modernization of all countries, promote a more dynamic, inclusive and sustainable process of economic globalization, and make development achievements benefit people of all countries more and more fairly.
(3) Create the future and make the world better.
With the development of world multipolarization, economic globalization, social informatization and cultural diversity, countries are more frequently and closely linked and interdependent than ever before, and human beings are increasingly becoming a community of destiny with you and me. At the same time, the global peace deficit, development deficit, security deficit and governance deficit are increasing. Traditional and non-traditional security issues such as regional conflicts, arms race, food security, terrorism, network security, climate change, energy crisis, major infectious diseases and artificial intelligence are overlapping, and this beautiful planet where human beings live together is facing serious threats. Facing the endless global problems and challenges, human society needs new ideas and concepts and a more just, reasonable, balanced, resilient and effective global governance system. What kind of world to build and how to move towards a bright future for human society are related to every country and everyone. We must answer the questions of this era well and make a correct historical choice.
As a responsible developing country, China, based on the common destiny and overall interests of mankind, proposes to build a community of human destiny and a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness, tolerance, cleanliness and beauty, which has outlined a new and beautiful vision for the future of mankind. Building the "Belt and Road" with the highest goal of building a community of human destiny, building a practical platform and providing a path to achieve this goal, and promoting the continuous implementation of a beautiful vision, is an important public product to improve global governance. Building the "Belt and Road" spans different regions, civilizations and stages of development, transcends ideological differences and social system differences, promotes countries to share opportunities, seek common development and common prosperity, and creates a community of interests, responsibilities and destiny with political mutual trust, economic integration and cultural tolerance, which has become a vivid practice in building a community of human destiny. Building the "Belt and Road" together has shaped people’s new cognition and imagination of the world, created a new concept and paradigm of international communication, pushed the global governance system to develop in a more just and reasonable direction, and led human society to a better future.
Second, pave the way for common development and prosperity
Building the Belt and Road Initiative upholds the concept of a community of human destiny, advocates and practices a global view, a development view, a security view, an openness view, a cooperation view, a civilization view and a governance view that adapt to the development of the times, and provides conceptual guidance and practical paths for all countries in the world to move towards common development and prosperity.
(1) Principle: discuss, build and share.
Building the "Belt and Road" is based on the principle of discussing, building and sharing, actively advocating the concept of win-win cooperation and the correct concept of justice and benefit, insisting that all countries are equal participants, contributors and beneficiaries, and promoting economic integration, development linkage and sharing of achievements.
Building the "Belt and Road" is not a solo of China, but a chorus of all parties. It advocates and practices true multilateralism, insists that everyone should discuss their own affairs, fully respects the differences in development level, economic structure, legal system and cultural traditions of various countries, and emphasizes equal participation, communication and consultation, brainstorming, without any political or economic conditions, and on a voluntary basis, to maximize consensus. All countries, big or small, strong or weak, rich or poor, participate on an equal footing and can actively make suggestions and suggestions in bilateral and multilateral cooperation. All parties have strengthened bilateral or multilateral communication and consultation, jointly explored and pioneered the establishment of many cooperation mechanisms, and provided a platform for economies at different stages of development to engage in dialogue and cooperation and participate in global governance.
Building the "Belt and Road" and adhering to the principle of joint construction is not China’s foreign aid plan and geopolitical tool, but a program of action for joint development; It is not a substitute for the existing regional mechanism, but a mutual connection and complementary advantages. Adhere to the joint participation of all parties, deeply connect with relevant national and regional development strategies, fully explore and give full play to the development potential and comparative advantages of all parties, jointly create new opportunities for development, seek new impetus for development, expand new development space, and realize the complementary and coordinated development of each’s strengths and capabilities. Through bilateral cooperation, third-party market cooperation, multilateral cooperation and other forms, more countries and enterprises are encouraged to participate in depth and form a joint development force. Follow the laws of the market and realize the interests of all parties involved through market-oriented operation. Enterprises are the main body, and the government mainly plays the role of building a platform, creating a mechanism and guiding policies. China has played a leading role in building the "Belt and Road" by taking advantage of its huge economic volume and market scale, rich experience in infrastructure construction, strong equipment manufacturing capacity, good quality and high cost performance, and comprehensive advantages in industry, capital, technology, talents and management.
Building the "Belt and Road" adheres to the principle of sharing, adheres to the concept of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation, seeks the intersection of interests of all parties and the greatest common denominator of cooperation, meets the development needs of all parties, responds to the realistic demands of the people, realizes the sharing of development opportunities and achievements by all parties, and prevents any country from falling behind. Most of the co-construction countries belong to developing countries, and all parties have made concerted efforts to solve the shortcomings of developing countries, such as backward infrastructure, lagging industrial development, low degree of industrialization, lack of capital and technology, and insufficient talent reserve, so as to promote economic and social development. China adheres to the principle of putting morality first, giving equal attention to justice and interests, providing assistance within its capacity to co-build the country, and sincerely helping developing countries to accelerate their development. At the same time, by co-building the "Belt and Road", it will promote the formation of a new pattern of all-round opening-up with land and sea linkage and two-way mutual assistance between East and West, build a new open economic system with a higher level, and accelerate the construction of a new development pattern with domestic big circulation as the main body and domestic and international double circulation as the mutual promotion.
(2) Concept: open, green and clean.
Building the "Belt and Road" has always adhered to the true colors of openness, green background and clean and bright colors, persisted in openness and tolerance, promoted green development, cracked down on corruption with zero tolerance, and made steady progress on the road of high-quality development.
Building the "Belt and Road" is a sunshine avenue where everyone moves forward hand in hand. It is not a private path of one side, and it does not exclude or target any party. It does not engage in geopolitical calculations, does not engage in closed exclusive "small circles", does not engage in small groups based on ideological standards, and does not engage in military alliances. From Eurasia to Africa, America and Oceania, no matter what political system, history, culture, religious belief, ideology and stage of development, as long as they have the will to develop together, they can participate in it. Guided by openness and tolerance, all parties resolutely oppose protectionism, unilateralism and hegemonism, jointly promote the all-round, three-dimensional and network-like pattern of great connectivity, explore new cooperation models of win-win, shared responsibility and common governance, build a global interconnected partnership and build a harmonious and coexisting family.
Building the "Belt and Road" conforms to the international trend of green and low-carbon development, advocates respecting nature, adapting to nature and protecting nature, respects the right of all parties to pursue green development, responds to the needs of all parties for sustainable development, and forms a consensus on building a green "Belt and Road". All parties actively carry out the "One Belt, One Road" green development policy dialogue, share and display the concept and effect of green development, enhance the consensus and actions of green development, deepen pragmatic cooperation in the fields of green infrastructure, green energy, green transportation and green finance, and strive to build a resource-saving and green and low-carbon Silk Road, making important contributions to protecting the ecological environment, achieving peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality, and coping with climate change. China gives full play to its advantages in renewable energy, energy conservation and environmental protection, clean production and other fields, and uses China’s technology, products and experience to promote the vigorous development of green "Belt and Road" cooperation.
Building the "Belt and Road" will regard honesty as the inherent requirement and necessary condition for stability and far-reaching, and always insist on all cooperation running in the sun. All parties work together to improve the construction of anti-corruption legal system and mechanism, deepen the docking of anti-corruption laws and regulations, pragmatically promote international anti-corruption cooperation, resolutely oppose all kinds of corruption and other international criminal activities, and continue to crack down on commercial bribery, so that funds and projects can operate efficiently in a clean and honest manner, so that all cooperation can be carried out better, and the "Belt and Road" can become a clean and honest road. In April 2019, China, together with relevant countries, international organizations and representatives of business and academic circles, launched the Beijing Initiative of Clean Silk Road, calling on all parties to join hands to discuss, build and share the Clean Silk Road. China’s "going out" enterprises adhere to compliance and law-abiding operations, not only abide by the laws of China, but also abide by the local laws and international rules of the host country, enhance the ability to prevent overseas integrity risks, strengthen project supervision and management and risk prevention and control, and create conscience projects, clean projects and quality projects; Central enterprises issued 868 compliance guidelines in key areas, formulated more than 5,000 job compliance duties, and formulated and improved more than 15,000 overseas management systems by central enterprises, central financial enterprises and branches. In November 2020, more than 60 Chinese enterprises deeply involved in the construction of the Belt and Road jointly launched the Belt and Road Initiative.Participate in the Corporate Integrity Compliance Initiative.
(3) Objectives: high standards, sustainability and benefiting people’s livelihood.
Building the "Belt and Road" aims at high standards, sustainability and benefiting people’s lives, and strives to achieve a higher level of cooperation, higher input efficiency, higher supply quality and higher development resilience, and promote the continuous deepening of the "Belt and Road" with high quality.
Building the "Belt and Road" will introduce universally supported rules and standards, promote enterprises to implement universally accepted international rules and standards in project construction, operation, procurement, bidding and other links, and promote cooperation and project construction in various fields with high standards. Advocate docking international advanced rules and standards, build a high-standard free trade zone, implement a higher level of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation policy, smooth the safe and orderly flow of people, goods, funds and data, and achieve a higher level of interconnection and deeper exchanges and cooperation. Adhere to high standards, grounding gas, benchmark the world first-class, pursue high cost performance, pilot first, and then promote, and advocate all parties involved to adopt rules and standards suitable for themselves and take a development path in line with their own national conditions. China has set up a high-standard leading organization to promote the construction of the Belt and Road, issued a series of policy documents, and promoted the continuous improvement of the top-level design of the "Belt and Road" and the continuous implementation of pragmatic measures.
Building the "Belt and Road" is in line with the UN’s sustainable development agenda in 2030, taking the road of coordinated economic, social and environmental development, striving to eliminate the root causes and obstacles that restrict development, enhancing the endogenous driving force for building a country’s independent development, promoting countries to achieve lasting, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, and integrating the concept of sustainable development into project selection, implementation and management. Follow international practices and the principle of debt sustainability, constantly improve the long-term, stable, sustainable and risk-controllable investment and financing system, actively innovate investment and financing modes, broaden investment and financing channels, and form a stable, transparent and high-quality fund guarantee system to ensure commercial and financial sustainability. No country has fallen into a debt crisis because of its participation in building the "Belt and Road" cooperation.
Building the "Belt and Road" will adhere to the people-centered principle, focusing on eliminating poverty, increasing employment and improving people’s livelihood, so that the fruits of cooperation can better benefit all people. All parties should deepen cooperation in the fields of public health, poverty alleviation, green development, science and technology education, culture and art, health and health, promote the cooperation of political parties, social organizations, think tanks, youth, women and local governments, and strive to create grounded and popular livelihood projects, so as to continuously enhance people’s sense of acquisition and happiness. China actively promotes foreign aid and the construction of "small but beautiful" projects that benefit people’s livelihood, with footprints from Asia to Africa, from Latin America to the South Pacific, roads and railways, schools and hospitals, and farmland and cottages, helping to jointly build the country to reduce poverty and improve people’s well-being.
(D) Vision: a happy road to benefit the world
As a development initiative, a cooperative initiative and an open initiative, building the "Belt and Road" pursues development, advocates win-win and conveys hope, with the aim of enhancing understanding and trust, strengthening all-round exchanges, and then promoting common development and achieving common prosperity.
The road to peace. Peace is the premise of development, and development is the foundation of peace. Building the "Belt and Road" goes beyond the jungle law and hegemonic order based on strength competition, abandons the zero-sum logic of "you lose and I win", jumps out of the cold war mentality of ideological opposition and geopolitical game, takes the road of peaceful development, and is committed to fundamentally solving the problems of permanent peace and universal security. Countries respect each other’s sovereignty, dignity and territorial integrity, their development paths and social systems, and their core interests and major concerns. As an initiator, China actively promotes the construction of new international relations featuring mutual respect, fairness, justice, win-win cooperation, creates a partnership of dialogue and non-confrontation, partnership and non-alignment, promotes all parties to establish a new security concept of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable, creates a security pattern of joint construction and sharing, and builds a peaceful and stable development environment.
The road to prosperity. Building the "Belt and Road" will not follow the old colonialist road of exploitation and plunder, do not buy and sell by force over others, do not engage in a "center-edge" attachment system, and do not pass on problems, beggar-thy-neighbor and harm others. The goal is to achieve mutual benefit and common development and prosperity. All parties firmly grasp the greatest common denominator of development, give full play to their respective advantages in resources and potential, stimulate their own growth momentum, enhance their independent development capabilities, jointly create more development opportunities and space, promote the formation of a new center and new kinetic energy for world economic growth, drive the world economy to achieve new inclusive growth, and push global development to a new stage of balance, coordination and tolerance.
The road to openness. Building the "Belt and Road" is an open and inclusive cooperation process that transcends national boundaries, ideological differences, differences in development stages, differences in social systems, and disputes over geographical interests; Instead of starting a new stove and reinventing it, it is a useful supplement and improvement to the existing international mechanism. All parties adhere to the core values and basic principles of the multilateral trading system, jointly build an open cooperation platform, maintain and develop an open world economy, create an environment conducive to open development, build a fair, reasonable and transparent system of international economic and trade investment rules, promote the common opening of win-win cooperation, cooperation and co-governance, promote the orderly flow of production factors, efficient allocation of resources, deep market integration, promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, maintain the stability and smoothness of the global industrial chain supply chain, and build an open and inclusive.
The road to innovation. Innovation is an important force to promote development. Co-constructing the "Belt and Road" adheres to innovation-driven development, grasps the opportunities of digital, networked and intelligent development, explores new formats, new technologies and new models, and explores new growth momentum and development paths to help all parties achieve leap-forward development. All parties will work together to strengthen the interconnection of digital infrastructure, promote the construction of the digital Silk Road, strengthen innovation cooperation in the frontier fields of science and technology, promote the deep integration of science and technology with industry, science and technology with finance, optimize the innovation environment, gather innovative resources, promote the formation of regional collaborative innovation pattern, narrow the digital divide, and inject strong impetus into common development.
The road to civilization. Building the "Belt and Road" will adhere to the concept of civilization of equality, mutual learning, dialogue and tolerance, promote the common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom of all mankind, transcend the gap between civilizations through civilized exchange, transcend the conflict of civilizations through mutual learning, transcend the superiority of civilizations through the coexistence of civilizations, and promote harmony among civilizations, seeking common ground while reserving differences and learning from each other. All parties actively establish a multi-level humanities cooperation mechanism, build more cooperation platforms, open up more cooperation channels, close exchanges in various fields, promote mutual understanding, mutual respect and mutual trust among different countries, better unite ideas and value consensus, and realize the innovative development of human civilization.
Third, promote all-round and multi-field interconnection
Building the "Belt and Road" revolves around interconnection, with the "hard connectivity" of infrastructure as the important direction, the "soft connectivity" of rules and standards as the important support, and the "heart connectivity" of the people as the important foundation. It has continuously deepened policy communication, facility connectivity, smooth trade, financial intermediation and popular support, and continuously expanded cooperation areas, and has become the widest and largest international cooperation platform in the world today.
(A) extensive and in-depth policy communication
Policy communication is an important guarantee for building the "Belt and Road". China has actively established a multi-level policy communication and exchange mechanism with co-established countries and international organizations, exerted policy synergy in development strategic planning, technical and economic policies, management rules and standards, and jointly formulated plans and measures to promote regional cooperation, which has injected "lubricant" and "catalyst" into deepening pragmatic cooperation. Building the "Belt and Road" has increasingly become an important framework for exchanges and cooperation among countries.
Strategic docking and policy coordination continued to deepen. At the global level, in November 2016, at the 71st UN General Assembly, 193 Member States unanimously agreed to write the Belt and Road Initiative into the UN General Assembly resolution; In March 2017, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2344, calling for strengthening regional economic cooperation through the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. The United Nations Development Programme and the World Health Organization have successively signed the "Belt and Road" cooperation agreement with China. At the World Trade Organization, China promoted the completion of the negotiation of the Investment Facilitation Agreement, and will establish a coordinated and unified investment management system in more than 110 countries and regions to promote the "Belt and Road" investment cooperation. At the regional and multilateral levels, the "Belt and Road Initiative" will be effectively linked with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the ASEAN Interconnection Master Plan 2025, the Indo-Pacific Outlook of ASEAN, the African Union’s Agenda 2063, and the European Union’s Eurasian Interconnection Strategy, so as to support the process of regional integration and global development. At the bilateral level, the Belt and Road Initiative and the Eurasian Economic Union in Russia, the new economic policy of "Bright Road" in Kazakhstan, the strategy of "Reviving the Silk Road" in Turkmenistan, and the "Grassland Road" in Mongolia are jointly established.Initiative, Indonesia’s concept of "global ocean fulcrum", Philippines’ plan of "building more buildings", Vietnam’s "two corridors and one circle", South Africa’s "economic reconstruction and recovery plan", Egypt’s Suez Canal corridor development plan, Saudi Arabia’s "Vision 2030" and other multinational strategies have been docked. By the end of June 2023, China had signed more than 200 cooperation documents with more than 150 countries and more than 30 international organizations on five continents to jointly build the Belt and Road, forming a large number of landmark projects and "small but beautiful" projects that benefit people’s livelihood.
A long-term mechanism for policy communication has basically taken shape. Guided by the diplomacy of the head of state, supported by the strategic communication between governments, assisted by the policy coordination between local governments and departments, and carried out project cooperation by enterprises and social organizations, we have established a multi-level, multi-platform and multi-agent regular communication channel. China successfully hosted two "One Belt, One Road" international cooperation summit forums, which provided an important platform for participating countries and international organizations to deepen exchanges, enhance mutual trust and close contacts. In 2017, the first "Belt and Road" international cooperation summit forum was attended by heads of state and government of 29 countries, and more than 1,600 representatives from more than 140 countries and more than 80 international organizations attended, forming 279 pragmatic achievements in five categories. In the second "Belt and Road" international cooperation summit forum in 2019, heads of state and government of 38 countries and 40 leaders including the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the President of the International Monetary Fund attended the round-table summit, and more than 6,000 representatives from more than 150 countries and 92 international organizations attended the meeting, forming 6 categories and 283 pragmatic achievements.
Multilateral cooperation has continued to advance. Under the framework of jointly building the "Belt and Road", Chinese and foreign partners initiated the establishment of more than 20 multilateral dialogue and cooperation mechanisms in professional fields, covering railways, ports, energy, finance, taxation, environmental protection, disaster reduction, think tanks, media and other fields, and the number of participating members continued to increase. The co-construction of the country also relies on major multilateral cooperation mechanisms such as China-ASEAN (10+1) Cooperation, China-Africa Cooperation Forum, China-Arab Cooperation Forum, China-Latin America Forum, China-Pacific Island Countries Economic Development Cooperation Forum, China-Central and Eastern European Countries Cooperation, World Economic Forum, Boao Forum for Asia, and the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s Summit with World Political Party Leaders to continuously deepen pragmatic cooperation.
The docking of rules and standards has been solidly promoted. The level of standardization cooperation has been continuously improved. By the end of June, 2023, China had signed 107 standardization cooperation documents with 65 national standardization institutions including Pakistan, Russia, Greece, Ethiopia and Costa Rica, as well as international and regional organizations, which promoted international cooperation in standards in civil aviation, climate change, agricultural food, building materials, electric vehicles, oil and gas pipelines, logistics, small hydropower, ocean and surveying and mapping. The "Belt and Road" standard information platform runs well, and the standardized profile information has covered 149 co-built countries, which can provide accurate retrieval services for standardized bibliographic information of 59 countries and 6 international and regional standardization organizations, and set up a bridge for standard interconnection among co-built countries. The supply capacity of foreign language versions of standards in China has been continuously improved, with nearly 1,400 foreign language versions of national standards and more than 1,000 foreign language versions of industry standards released. In May 2022, AALCO established a regional arbitration center in Hong Kong, actively providing multiple dispute resolution paths for the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. China has continuously strengthened cross-border accounting and auditing supervision cooperation with 22 countries and regions, providing institutional guarantee for expanding cross-border investment and financing channels.
(2) The connectivity of facilities has begun to take shape.
Facilities connectivity is a priority area for building the "Belt and Road". Building the "Belt and Road" with "six corridors, six roads, many countries and many ports" as the basic framework, accelerating the construction of multi-level and composite infrastructure networks, basically forming a four-in-one interconnection pattern of "land, sea and skynet", laying a solid foundation for promoting economic and trade cooperation and capacity, and strengthening cultural exchanges and personnel exchanges.
The construction of economic corridors and international passages has been fruitful. Build a country to jointly promote the construction of international backbone channels and build an infrastructure network connecting Asian subregions and between Asia, Europe and Africa. In the direction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, key projects have been steadily promoted. The Peshawar-Karachi Expressway (Sukur-Multan section), the karakoram highway Phase II (KhVelijan-Takot section) and the Lahore rail transit orange line project have been completed and opened to traffic. The power stations in SasChivard, Kassem Port, Tal and Hubu have maintained safe and stable operation, the Mera DC transmission project has been put into commercial operation, the carlot Hydropower Station has been connected to the grid for power generation, and the Lashkai Special Economic Zone has entered the stage of comprehensive construction. In the direction of the new Eurasian Continental Bridge Economic Corridor, the Belgrade-Novi Sad section of the Hungarian-Serbian Railway was opened in March 2022, and the track laying work was started in the Budapest-Klebio section of Hungary; The first anniversary of the opening of the Peleshac cross-sea bridge in Croatia; Shuangxi highway runs through the whole line; The North-South Expressway in Montenegro was successfully completed and put into operation. In the direction of China-Indo-China Peninsula Economic Corridor, the whole line of China-Laos Railway has been completed and opened to traffic, and its operation has achieved good results, and the role of gold transportation channel has become increasingly prominent; As the flagship project of "One Belt, One Road" jointly built by China and Indonesia, Jakarta-Bandung High-speed Railway with a speed of 350 kilometers per hour was opened for operation; The first phase of China-Thailand Railway (Bangkok-Nakhon Ratchasima) signed an online engineering contract, and 11 sections of civil works have been started (one of which has been completed). In the direction of China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor, China-Russia Heihe Highway Bridge and Tongjiang Railway Bridge were opened to traffic.The East China-Russia natural gas pipeline was officially ventilated, and the feasibility study on upgrading and development of the China-Mongolia-Russia Middle Line Railway was officially launched. In the direction of China-Central Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor, the China-Kyrgyzstan-Urumqi highway transportation line has achieved normal operation, the China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline has operated stably, and the special grain and oil line in North Kazakhstan and Central Europe trains have been connected to the grid. In the direction of the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor, the China-Myanmar crude oil and natural gas pipeline was completed and put into operation, the feasibility study of the China-Myanmar railway Muse-Mandalay railway was completed, the feasibility study of the Mandalay-Kyaukphyu railway was started, and the construction of the China-Bangladesh Friendship Bridge and the Doha-Zhali-Cox’s bazar railway made positive progress. In Africa, the Inner Mongolia Railway and the Yaji Railway have been opened to traffic successively, which has become an important channel to promote the in-depth development of East Africa and even the whole African country.
The level of maritime interconnection has been continuously improved. The cooperation in building national ports has been deepened, and the efficiency of cargo transportation has been greatly improved: the annual cargo throughput of Piraeus Port in Greece has increased to more than 5 million TEUs, making it the fourth largest container port in Europe and the leading container port in the Mediterranean; Great progress has been made in the joint construction of Gwadar Port in Pakistan, and it is steadily moving towards the goal of logistics hub and industrial base; The Kyaukphyu deepwater port project in Myanmar is carrying out preliminary work such as geological exploration and environmental assessment; The annual throughput of bulk cargo in Hambantota Port of Sri Lanka increased to 1.205 million tons; Italy’s Wado container terminal opened for operation, becoming the first semi-automatic terminal in Italy; The Laiji deepwater port project in Nigeria was completed and put into operation, becoming an important modern deepwater port in Central and West Africa. The "Silk Road Shipping" network continues to expand. By the end of June 2023, the "Silk Road Shipping" route has reached 117 ports in 43 countries around the world, and more than 300 well-known shipping companies, port enterprises and think tanks at home and abroad have joined the "Silk Road Shipping" alliance. The "Maritime Silk Road Marine Environment Forecast and Guarantee System" continues to operate professionally, covering more than 100 cities in the country.
The construction of the "Aerial Silk Road" has achieved remarkable results. The inter-country air route network has been expanded rapidly, and the level of air connectivity has been steadily improved. China has signed bilateral air transport agreements with 104 co-construction countries, achieved direct air flights with 57 co-construction countries, and continuously improved the level of cross-border transport facilitation. China enterprises have actively participated in the cooperation in building national civil aviation infrastructure in Pakistan, Nepal, Togo and other countries, helping the development of local civil aviation. China civil aviation "One Belt, One Road" cooperation platform was formally established in August 2020, and the national civil aviation exchange and cooperation mechanism and platform are more perfect. During the COVID-19 epidemic, the "Aerial Silk Road", represented by Zhengzhou-Luxemburg, kept flying and sailing, transporting a large number of anti-epidemic materials, which played the role of "air lifeline" between China and Europe and made positive contributions to maintaining the stability of the international industrial chain supply chain.
The international multimodal transport corridor continued to expand. International multimodal transport such as China-Europe train, China-Europe land and sea express line, new land and sea passage in the west, Lianyungang-Horgos new Asia-Europe land and sea transport has developed steadily. China-Europe trains reach more than 200 cities in 25 European countries, 86 running lines with a speed of 120 kilometers per hour pass through the main areas in the hinterland of Asia and Europe, and the logistics distribution network covers Eurasia; By the end of June 2023, China-Europe trains had operated a total of 74,000 trains, transported nearly 7 million TEUs, and had more than 50,000 kinds of goods, involving 53 categories, including complete automobiles, mechanical equipment and electronic products, with a total value exceeding 300 billion US dollars. From scratch, the China-Europe land and sea express line has become the third trade channel between China and Europe, besides the traditional sea route and the land-based China-Europe trains. In 2022, the total container volume of the whole channel exceeded 180,000 TEUs, and more than 2,600 trains operated. The new land-sea corridor in the west covers 18 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in central and western China, and the goods flow to more than 300 ports in more than 100 countries.
(3) Smooth, convenient and efficient trade.
Trade and investment cooperation is an important part of building the "Belt and Road". Build a country to solve the problem of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, greatly eliminate trade and investment barriers, improve the business environment in the region and countries, build a free trade zone, broaden the trade field, optimize the trade structure, expand the fields of mutual investment and industrial cooperation, promote the establishment of a more balanced, equal and sustainable trade system, develop mutually beneficial and win-win economic and trade relations, and jointly make a "cake" of cooperation.
The scale of trade and investment has steadily expanded. From 2013 to 2022, the total import and export volume of China and the co-construction countries totaled 19.1 trillion US dollars, with an average annual growth rate of 6.4%; Two-way investment with the co-construction countries totaled more than 380 billion US dollars, of which China’s foreign direct investment exceeded 240 billion US dollars; The newly signed contract value and the completed turnover of the national contracted projects jointly built in China have reached 2 trillion US dollars and 1.3 trillion US dollars respectively. In 2022, the total import and export volume of China and the co-construction countries was nearly 2.9 trillion US dollars, accounting for 45.4% of the total foreign trade value of China in the same period, an increase of 6.2 percentage points over 2013; The total import and export of private enterprises in China to the co-construction countries exceeded US$ 1.5 trillion, accounting for 53.7% of the total import and export of China and the co-construction countries in the same period.
The level of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation has been continuously improved. Build a country to jointly safeguard multilateralism and free trade, strive to create a good institutional environment for close economic and trade relations between them, and make positive progress in the docking of working systems, the coordination of technical standards, the mutual recognition of inspection results, and the networking of electronic certificates. By the end of August 2023, more than 80 countries and international organizations had participated in the Belt and Road Initiative for Smooth Trade Cooperation initiated by China. China has signed 21 free trade agreements with 28 countries and regions; The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) came into effect on January 1, 2022. It is a free trade zone with the largest population and economic and trade scale in the world. It overlaps and complements the countries and regions covered by the "Belt and Road" initiative, covering areas and contents, and forms a new pattern of economic and trade cooperation and development in Asia. China has also actively promoted its accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (CPTPP) and the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA). China has signed bilateral investment agreements with 135 countries and regions; Signed double taxation avoidance agreements (including arrangements and agreements) with 112 countries and regions; Realize mutual recognition of "AEO" with 35 co-construction countries; Signed third-party market cooperation documents with 14 countries. China and Singapore, Pakistan, Mongolia, Iran and other countries have established ".The cooperation mechanism of "single window" and the signing of customs inspection and quarantine cooperation documents have effectively improved the efficiency of customs clearance.
The role of trade and investment platform is more prominent. China International Import Expo is the world’s first national-level exhibition with the theme of import. It has been successfully held for five consecutive times, with a cumulative intentional turnover of nearly 350 billion US dollars, and about 2,000 first-time exhibition products are unveiled. The participating countries and participants are diverse and extensive, and it has become an international public platform for international procurement, investment promotion, humanities exchange, open cooperation and global sharing. China Import and Export Fair, China International Fair for Trade in Services, China International Fair for Investment and Trade, China International Consumer Goods Fair, Global Digital Trade Fair, China-Africa Economic and Trade Fair, China-Arab Countries Fair, China-Russia Fair, China-Central and Eastern European Countries Fair, China-ASEAN Fair, China-Asia-Europe Fair and other key exhibitions have been expanding, which has effectively promoted economic, trade and investment cooperation between countries jointly built. The China Special Administrative Region successfully hosted the 8th Belt and Road Summit Forum, and the China Special Administrative Region successfully hosted the 14th International Infrastructure Investment and Construction Summit Forum, which played an important role in helping to jointly build the Belt and Road Economic, Trade and Investment Cooperation.
Industrial cooperation has been further promoted. Co-construction of the country is committed to creating a cooperative pattern of coordinated development and mutual benefit, which has effectively promoted the upgrading of industrial structure and the optimal layout of industrial chains in various countries. Build a country to jointly promote international capacity cooperation, deepen cooperation in traditional industries such as steel, nonferrous metals, building materials, automobiles, construction machinery, resources and energy, agriculture, explore cooperation in emerging industries such as digital economy, new energy vehicles, nuclear energy and nuclear technology, and 5G, and carry out tripartite and multi-party market cooperation with willing countries to promote complementary advantages and mutual benefit. By the end of June, 2023, China had signed capacity cooperation documents with more than 40 countries, and the China International Mining Congress and the China-ASEAN Mining Cooperation Forum had become important platforms for jointly building countries to carry out mining capacity cooperation. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Agricultural Technology Exchange Training Demonstration Base helps to build the "Belt and Road" agricultural science and technology development and promote economic and trade cooperation in the agricultural field between countries. Two "Hualong No.1" nuclear power units in Karachi Nuclear Power Station K2 and K3 jointly built by China and Pakistan have been completed and put into operation, and the Uribin nuclear fuel assembly plant jointly invested by China and Kazakhstan has been successfully put into operation. The China-ASEAN Forum on Peaceful Use of Nuclear Technology has established a bridge and link for building a country to carry out nuclear technology industry cooperation and help people’s livelihood and economic development. There are more than 70 overseas industrial parks jointly built by China enterprises, governments and enterprises, such as China-Malaysia, China-Indonesia "Double Parks", China-Belarus Industrial Park and China-Arab (United Emirates).Capacity Cooperation Demonstration Park, China-Egypt (and) TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone have been steadily promoted.
(D) increasingly diversified financing.
Financing is an important support for building the "Belt and Road". Build a country and relevant institutions to actively carry out various forms of financial cooperation, innovate investment and financing modes, broaden investment and financing channels, enrich investment and financing subjects, improve investment and financing mechanisms, vigorously promote policy finance, development finance, commercial finance and cooperative finance to support the construction of the "Belt and Road", and strive to build a long-term, stable, sustainable and risk-controllable investment and financing system.
The financial cooperation mechanism is becoming increasingly sound. China National Development Bank promoted the establishment of multilateral financial cooperation mechanisms such as China-Central and Eastern Europe UnionPay, China-Arab countries UnionPay, China-ASEAN UnionPay, China-Japan-Korea-ASEAN UnionPay, China-Africa Financial Cooperation UnionPay and China-Latin America Development Financial Cooperation Mechanism, and China Industrial and Commercial Bank promoted the establishment of the "One Belt, One Road" inter-bank normalization cooperation mechanism. By the end of June, 2023, 13 Chinese banks had set up 145 tier-one institutions in 50 co-construction countries, 17.7 million merchants in 131 co-construction countries opened UnionPay card business, and 74 co-construction countries opened UnionPay mobile payment service. The Belt and Road Innovation and Development Center, the Belt and Road Financial Development Research Center, and the China-International Monetary Fund Joint Capacity Building Center have been established one after another. China has signed bilateral currency swap agreements with 20 co-construction countries, and established RMB clearing arrangements in 17 co-construction countries. The number of participants, business volume and influence of RMB cross-border payment system have gradually increased, effectively promoting trade and investment facilitation. Cooperation and exchanges in financial supervision have continued to advance. China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (now the State Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau), China Securities Regulatory Commission signed memorandums of understanding on supervision cooperation with regulators from many overseas countries, which promoted the establishment of a regional supervision coordination mechanism, promoted the efficient allocation of funds, strengthened risk management and control, and created favorable investment conditions for various financial institutions and investors.
The investment and financing channel platform has been continuously expanded. China invested in the Silk Road Fund and established the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank with relevant countries. The Silk Road Fund specializes in the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. By the end of June 2023, the Silk Road Fund had signed a total of 75 investment projects with a promised investment of about 22.04 billion US dollars. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has 106 members, and approved 227 investment projects with a total investment of 43.6 billion US dollars. The projects involve transportation, energy, public health and other fields, providing investment and financing support for jointly building national infrastructure connectivity and sustainable economic and social development. China actively participated in various existing financing arrangements, signed memorandums of cooperation with international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, jointly established a multilateral development and financing cooperation center with international financial institutions, strengthened investment and financing cooperation in third-party markets with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and carried out joint financing with the International Finance Corporation and the African Development Bank, effectively inciting market capital participation. China initiated the establishment of China-Eurasia Economic Cooperation Fund, China-Latin America Cooperation Fund, China-Central and Eastern Europe Investment Cooperation Fund, China-ASEAN Investment Cooperation Fund, China-Latin America Capacity Cooperation Fund, China-Africa Capacity Cooperation Fund and other international economic cooperation funds, effectively expanding the channels for joint investment and financing. China National Development Bank and The Export-Import Bank of China respectively set up special loans for the Belt and Road Initiative to pool resources and increase financial support for the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative.By the end of 2022, China National Development Bank has directly provided high-quality financial services for more than 1,300 Belt and Road projects, effectively playing the leading role of development finance and bringing together various domestic and foreign funds to jointly build the Belt and Road; The balance of The Export-Import Bank of China’s "Belt and Road" loans reached 2.2 trillion yuan, covering more than 130 co-construction countries. The loan projects have accumulated more than 400 billion US dollars of investment, driving trade to more than 2 trillion US dollars. China Xinbao gives full play to the policy function of export credit insurance and actively provides comprehensive guarantee for the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Investment and financing methods continue to innovate. Various innovative models such as funds and bonds have been continuously developed, and the level of financial cooperation in building the "Belt and Road" has been continuously improved. China securities industry has set up a number of "One Belt, One Road" theme funds and established the "One Belt, One Road" theme index. In December 2015, the China Securities Regulatory Commission officially launched a pilot program for overseas institutions to issue RMB bonds ("panda bonds") in the exchange market. By the end of June 2023, the exchange bond market had issued a total of 99 "panda bonds", with a cumulative issuance scale of 152.54 billion yuan; A total of 46 "Belt and Road" bonds were issued, with a cumulative issuance scale of 52.72 billion yuan. Green finance has developed steadily. In May 2019, China Industrial and Commercial Bank issued the first "Belt and Road" inter-bank normalization cooperation mechanism (BRBR) green bond that met both the international green bond standards and the China green bond standards; By the end of 2022, more than 40 large global institutions have signed the "Belt and Road" Green Investment Principles; In June 2023, The Export-Import Bank of China issued the theme financial bonds to promote the international cooperation and support the infrastructure construction of the Belt and Road Initiative.China’s stock and futures exchanges have steadily promoted pragmatic cooperation with jointly established state exchanges in terms of equity, products and technology, and actively supported the market development of jointly established or joint-stock exchanges such as Astana International Exchange, Pakistan Stock Exchange and Dhaka Stock Exchange.
Debt sustainability is constantly increasing. In accordance with the principles of equal participation, benefit sharing and risk sharing, China and 28 countries jointly approved the Guiding Principles for Belt and Road Financing, promoting the joint construction of national governments, financial institutions and enterprises to attach importance to debt sustainability and enhance their debt management capabilities. China draws lessons from the debt sustainability analysis framework of low-income countries of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and combines the actual situation of building a country to develop a debt sustainability analysis tool, and issues the "Belt and Road Debt Sustainability Analysis Framework" to encourage all parties to use it on a voluntary basis. China adheres to the guidance of economic and social benefits, and provides loans for project construction according to the needs and actual conditions of the host country to avoid causing debt risks and financial burdens to the host country; The key areas of investment are interconnection infrastructure projects and people’s livelihood projects urgently needed by the country, which have brought effective investment, increased high-quality assets and enhanced development momentum. Many think tank experts and international institutions have pointed out that almost all the "Belt and Road" projects are initiated by the host country for its own economic development and improvement of people’s livelihood, and they follow economic logic rather than geopolitical logic.
(5) The people’s hearts have a solid foundation.
The common feelings of the people are the social foundation for building the "Belt and Road". We will jointly build a national heritage and carry forward the spirit of friendly cooperation on the Silk Road, extensively carry out cultural tourism cooperation, educational exchanges, cooperation between media and think tanks, and people-to-people exchanges, and promote mutual learning and cultural integration and innovation, forming a pattern of people-to-people exchanges with multiple interactions and flowers, and consolidating the public opinion base for building the "Belt and Road".
Cultural tourism cooperation is rich and colorful. By the end of June 2023, China had signed cooperation documents in the fields of culture and tourism with 144 co-construction countries. China and the co-construction countries jointly established a cooperation platform, and established the Silk Road International Theatre Alliance, Museum Alliance, Art Festival Alliance, Library Alliance and Art Gallery Alliance, with 562 member units, including 326 cultural institutions in 72 co-construction countries. China has continuously deepened cultural exchanges with foreign countries, initiated the implementation of the "Cultural Silk Road" plan, and extensively launched the "Happy Spring Festival" "Hello! China "and" Yihui Silk Road "and other key brand activities. China and Brunei, Cambodia, Greece, Italy, Malaysia, Russia and ASEAN jointly held the Year of Culture and the Year of Tourism, and jointly organized cultural relics exhibitions, film festivals, art festivals, book exhibitions, music festivals and other activities, as well as the creation, translation and broadcasting of excellent books, radio, film and television, and implemented the "Belt and Road" theme stage art works creation and promotion project, the "Belt and Road" international art project and the cultural neighborhood project to solidly promote the protection of Asian cultural heritage. China has established 46 overseas China cultural centers in 44 countries, including 32 countries. Set up 20 tourism offices in 18 countries, including 8 countries.
Educational exchanges and cooperation are extensive and in-depth. China issued the "Education Action to Promote the Joint Construction of the Belt and Road" to promote international exchanges and cooperation in the field of education. By the end of June, 2023, China had signed mutual recognition agreements on higher education academic degrees with 45 countries and regions. China has established the Silk Road China Government Scholarship, and local provinces in China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, Macao Special Administrative Region of China, universities and scientific research institutions have also set up scholarships for the co-construction countries. China colleges and universities have 313 Confucius Institutes and 315 Confucius Classrooms in 132 countries. The "Chinese Bridge" summer camp project has invited nearly 50,000 young people from more than 100 co-built countries to visit China, supporting 100,000 Chinese lovers from 143 co-built countries to learn Chinese online and experience China culture. China colleges and universities have cooperated with more than 20 national colleges and universities in three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe to build a number of Luban workshops. China and UNESCO have held the "Belt and Road" Youth Creativity and Heritage Forum and related activities for seven consecutive years; Jointly set up the Silk Road Young Scholars Funding Scheme, and has funded 24 young scholars’ research projects. The Atomic Energy Scholarship Program of the China Municipal Government has trained nearly 200 master’s and doctor’s students majoring in the peaceful use of nuclear energy for 26 co-construction countries. Building a country together also gives full play to the "One Belt, One Road" strategic alliance of universities, "The Belt and Road International Alliance of Scientific Organizations and other demonstrations will play a leading role in deepening international exchanges and cooperation in personnel training and scientific research.
The cooperation between media and think tanks is fruitful. International media exchanges and cooperation have been steadily advanced, and the country has successfully held six consecutive "Belt and Road" media cooperation forums to build a "Silk Road TV International Cooperation Community". China-Arab countries radio and television cooperation forum, China-Africa media cooperation forum, China-Cambodian regular radio and television cooperation conference, China-ASEAN media cooperation forum, Lan Mei audio-visual week and other bilateral and multilateral cooperation mechanisms have been carried out, and the activities of international organizations such as the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union and the Arab countries Broadcasting Union have become vivid and colorful, which has become an important platform for building national consensus. China and the national media jointly established the "One Belt, One Road" news cooperation alliance, and actively promoted the selection of the "Silk Road Award" for international communication. By the end of June 2023, the number of members of the alliance had increased to 233 media in 107 countries. Think tank exchanges are more frequent. The Advisory Committee of the "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum was established in 2018. The "Belt and Road" think tank cooperation alliance has developed 122 partners in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America, and 16 Chinese and foreign think tanks jointly initiated the establishment of the "Belt and Road" International Think Tank Cooperation Committee.
Non-governmental exchanges continue to deepen. Non-governmental organizations aim at benefiting the people, benefiting the people’s livelihood and connecting the people’s hearts, and constantly weave close cooperation networks. At the sub-forum of the second Belt and Road International Cooperation Summit, Chinese and foreign non-governmental organizations, such as the China Association for the Promotion of International Exchanges, jointly launched the "Silk Road Family" campaign, which promoted Chinese and foreign non-governmental organizations to establish nearly 600 pairs of partnerships and carry out more than 300 livelihood cooperation projects. Brand projects such as "Deep Love", "International Love Package" and "Bright Travel" have a wide impact. More than 60 co-founded cities have formed more than 1,000 pairs of sister cities with many cities in China. 352 non-governmental organizations from 72 countries and regions formed a non-governmental organization cooperation network along the Silk Road, and carried out more than 500 livelihood projects and various activities, which became an important platform for co-constructing national non-governmental organizations to carry out exchanges and cooperation.
(6) Cooperation in new areas has been steadily advanced.
Build a country to give full play to its respective advantages, continuously expand cooperation areas and innovate cooperation modes, promote the healthy, green, innovative and digital Silk Road construction to make positive progress, and broaden the space for international cooperation.
Health cooperation has achieved remarkable results. Build a country, actively promote the construction of the "Healthy Silk Road", promote the construction of a human health community, and establish a close health partnership. By the end of June, 2023, China had signed the Memorandum of Understanding on the Belt and Road cooperation in the field of health with the World Health Organization, signed health cooperation agreements with more than 160 countries and international organizations, and initiated and participated in nine international and regional health cooperation mechanisms, including China-African countries, China-Arab countries and China-ASEAN health cooperation. Relying on the "Belt and Road" medical talent training alliance, hospital cooperation alliance, health policy research network and China-ASEAN Health Silk Road talent training plan (2020-2022), China has trained tens of thousands of professionals in health management, public health and medical research to build a country, sent China medical teams to 58 countries, and carried out "Bright Walk" in more than 30 countries, treating nearly 10,000 cataract patients free of charge. After the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, China provided anti-epidemic assistance to more than 120 countries, sent 38 anti-epidemic expert groups to 34 countries, and initiated the Belt and Road Initiative with 31 countries.The vaccine partnership initiative has provided more than 2 billion doses of vaccines to co-established countries and cooperated with more than 20 countries in vaccine production, which has improved the accessibility and affordability of vaccines in developing countries. China signed cooperation documents on traditional medicine with 14 co-construction countries, 8 co-construction countries supported the development of traditional Chinese medicine within their own laws and regulations, 30 overseas Chinese medicine centers were put into construction, and more than 100 kinds of Chinese patent medicines were registered and listed as medicines in co-construction countries.
Positive progress has been made in green and low-carbon development. China has actively established green and low-carbon development cooperation mechanisms with co-construction countries and international organizations to jointly promote green development and jointly address climate change. China successively issued Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Green Belt and Road Construction and Opinions on Promoting the Green Development of the Belt and Road Construction, and put forward the grand goal of basically forming the green development pattern of the Belt and Road Construction in 2030. China signed the Memorandum of Understanding (2017-2022) on Building a Green Belt and Road with the United Nations Environment Programme, signed environmental protection cooperation agreements with more than 30 countries and international organizations, jointly launched the Belt and Road Partnership Initiative with 31 countries, established the Belt and Road International Alliance for Green Development with more than 150 partners in more than 40 countries, and established the Belt and Road International Alliance with 32 countries. China promised not to build new overseas coal-fired power projects, actively build a green financial development platform and an international cooperation mechanism, carry out cooperative research on biodiversity protection with co-construction countries, jointly safeguard the ecological security of the Maritime Silk Road, and build the "Belt and Road" eco-environmental big data service platform and the "Belt and Road".Environmental technology exchange and transfer center, implement the green silk road messenger plan. China has implemented the "Belt and Road" South-South cooperation plan to address climate change, signed 47 memorandums of understanding on South-South cooperation on climate change with 39 co-construction countries, cooperated with Laos, Cambodia and Seychelles to build a low-carbon demonstration zone, carried out more than 70 climate change mitigation and adaptation projects with more than 30 developing countries, and trained more than 3,000 environmental managers, experts and scholars from more than 120 countries. In May 2023, The Export-Import Bank of China, together with more than 10 financial institutions such as China Development Bank and China Xinbao, issued the Initiative of Green Finance Supporting the Belt and Road Energy Transformation, calling on all parties concerned to continuously increase their support for building a green and low-carbon national energy transformation field.
Cooperation in scientific and technological innovation was accelerated. Build a country to strengthen innovation cooperation, accelerate technology transfer and knowledge sharing, constantly optimize the innovation environment, gather innovation resources, actively carry out major scientific and technological cooperation and jointly cultivate scientific and technological innovation talents, and promote the improvement of scientific and technological innovation capabilities. In October 2016, China issued the "Special Plan for Promoting Scientific and Technological Innovation Cooperation in the Belt and Road Construction"; In May 2017, the "One Belt, One Road" science and technology innovation action plan was officially launched and implemented, and the innovation ability of the country was enhanced through pragmatic measures such as joint research, technology transfer, scientific and technological humanities exchanges and cooperation in science and technology parks. By the end of June, 2023, China had signed the Intergovernmental Agreement on Science and Technology Cooperation with more than 80 co-construction countries, with 58 member units of the Belt and Road International Alliance of Scientific Organizations (ANSO). Since 2013, China has supported more than 10,000 young scientists from co-construction countries to carry out short-term scientific research and exchanges in China, trained and co-constructed more than 16,000 national technical and management personnel, built nine transnational technology transfer platforms for ASEAN, South Asia, Arab countries, Africa, Latin America and other regions, helped more than 50 African countries to build more than 20 agricultural technology demonstration centers, and started the construction of more than 50 "Belt and Road" joint laboratories in agriculture, new energy, health and other fields. China and the World Intellectual Property Organization signed the "Strengthening the Belt and Road"Intellectual Property Cooperation Agreement and the Supplementary Agreement on Revision and Extension, co-hosted two high-level meetings on intellectual property rights in the Belt and Road, and issued the Joint Initiative and Joint Statement to strengthen intellectual property cooperation; Establish intellectual property cooperation relations with more than 50 countries and international organizations, and jointly create an innovative and business environment that respects the value of knowledge.
There are many bright spots in the construction of the "Digital Silk Road". Build a country to strengthen the connectivity of rules and standards in the digital field, promote the coordination of regional digital policies, and work together to create an open, fair, just and non-discriminatory digital development environment. By the end of 2022, China had signed memorandums of understanding with 17 countries on the Digital Silk Road, 30 countries on e-commerce cooperation and 18 countries and regions on strengthening investment cooperation in the digital economy. Put forward and promote cooperation initiatives such as Global Data Security Initiative, Belt and Road Initiative for International Cooperation in Digital Economy, China-ASEAN Initiative for Building a Digital Economy Partnership, China-Arab Initiative for Data Security Cooperation, China+Five Central Asian Countries Initiative for Data Security Cooperation, BRICS Framework for Digital Economy Partnership, and take the lead in formulating the Standard Framework for Cross-border E-commerce. Actively promote the interconnection of digital infrastructure, speed up the construction of digital transportation corridors, make positive progress in the construction of a number of international submarine optical cables, build 130 sets of cross-border land cable systems, extensively build 5G base stations, data centers, cloud computing centers, smart cities, etc., and digitally upgrade traditional infrastructure such as ports, railways, roads, energy, water conservancy, etc., "China-ASEAN Information Port" and "Digital China-Europe Train"Key projects such as the China-Arab online Silk Road have been comprehensively promoted, and the "Digital Silk Road Earth Big Data Platform" has realized multilingual data sharing. The construction of spatial information corridor has achieved remarkable results. China has built a satellite telecommunication port connecting South Asia, Africa, Europe and America. The data of China-Pakistan (West) earth resources series remote sensing satellites are widely used in many countries and fields. Beidou-3 global satellite navigation system provides comprehensive services for trains in Central Europe, ships and shipping, etc. China has jointly developed and launched communication or remote sensing satellites, built satellite ground receiving stations and other space infrastructure with many countries and regions. Relying on the United Nations Regional Center for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (China), it has trained a large number of space talents for the co-construction countries, and actively built the China-Joint Moon and Deep Space Exploration Center, the China-Arab Joint Space Debris Observation Center, the Lan-Mei Earth Observation Data Cooperation Center, the China-ASEAN Satellite Application Information Center and the China-Africa Satellite Remote Sensing Application Cooperation Center. Use the high-scoring satellite 16-meter data sharing service platform, the "Belt and Road" typical meteorological disaster analysis and early warning platform, and the natural resources satellite remote sensing cloud service platform to serve more countries.
Fourth, inject positive energy into world peace and development
In the past 10 years, the "Belt and Road" initiative has achieved remarkable results, opened up a new space for world economic growth, built a new platform for international trade and investment, enhanced the development capacity and people’s livelihood and well-being of relevant countries, expanded new practices for improving the global governance system, and brought more certainty and stability to a chaotic and intertwined world. Building the "Belt and Road" has not only developed China, but also benefited the world.
(A) to build a country to bring tangible benefits.
Development is the eternal theme of human society. Building the "Belt and Road" focuses on the fundamental issue of development, focusing on solving the shortcomings and bottlenecks that restrict development, creating a new engine of economic development, creating a new development environment and space for building a country, enhancing the development capacity of building a country, boosting the development confidence of building a country, improving the people’s livelihood and well-being of building a country, and contributing to solving the global development imbalance and promoting the common modernization of all countries.
Activate the driving force for building a country together. In the past 10 years, the "One Belt, One Road" initiative has made great efforts to solve the major bottlenecks restricting the interconnection and economic development of most developing countries, implemented a large number of infrastructure construction projects, and promoted the co-construction countries to make great progress in the infrastructure construction of railways, highways, shipping, pipelines, energy, communications and basic public services, improved local production and living conditions and development environment, and enhanced the hematopoietic function of economic development. Some engineering projects with long construction period and long-term development service, like seeds sown, are gradually showing their comprehensive benefits. The connectivity of infrastructure has effectively reduced the cost of building a country to participate in international trade, improved its ability and level of access to the world economy, and stimulated greater development potential and stronger development momentum. The research of Asian Development Bank shows that for every 10% reduction in the cost of infrastructure trade in landlocked countries, their exports will increase by 20%. Industrial capacity cooperation has promoted the upgrading of national industrial structure, improved the level of industrialization, digitalization and informatization, promoted the formation of a competitive industrial system, enhanced the breadth and depth of participation in international division of labor and cooperation, and brought more development opportunities and greater development space. China actively carried out international cooperation in the field of emergency management, and sent rescue teams to Nepal, Mozambique, Turkey and other countries to carry out humanitarian rescue operations such as earthquakes and floods, and provided emergency humanitarian material assistance and expert technical guidance to Tonga, Madagascar and other countries.
Enhance the ability to jointly build the country to reduce poverty. Developing countries still face food problems. China actively participated in the global food and agriculture governance, issued the Vision and Action of Jointly Promoting Agricultural Cooperation in the Belt and Road Construction with relevant countries, signed more than 100 agricultural and fishery cooperation documents with nearly 90 co-construction countries and international organizations, and the trade volume of agricultural products with co-construction countries reached 139.4 billion US dollars, sent more than 2,000 agricultural experts and technicians to more than 70 countries and regions, and promoted more than 1,500 agricultural technologies such as demonstration fungus and hybrid rice to many countries to help. Promoting employment is an important way to reduce poverty. In the process of building the "Belt and Road", China and relevant countries actively promoted the construction of industrial parks, guided enterprises to create jobs for local residents through high-level industrial cooperation, and realized "one person’s employment and the whole family’s poverty alleviation". According to the research report of McKinsey & Company, the localization rate of employees of China enterprises in Africa is 89%, which has effectively promoted the employment of the local population. The World Bank predicts that by 2030, the investment related to the "One Belt, One Road" is expected to lift 7.6 million people out of extreme poverty and 32 million people out of moderate poverty.
The livelihood project has achieved remarkable results. Repair and maintain the bridge to solve the problem of residents’ travel; Drilling wells to meet the drinking water needs of villagers; Install street lamps to illuminate pedestrians’ way home at night … … People’s livelihood projects and popular support projects, which are "small but beautiful" and "practical", have helped local people solve their urgent needs, improved their living conditions, enhanced the people’s livelihood and well-being of the country, and brought tangible sense of gain, happiness and security to people of all countries. Over the past 10 years, enterprises in China have successively implemented more than 300 projects of "caring for the needy", "rehabilitation for doctors" and "Happy Home" in co-construction countries, aided the headquarters of the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Pakistan Gwadar Pok Oi Medical Emergency Center, and helped Cameroon, Ethiopia, Djibouti and other countries solve the problem of people’s drinking water. The people’s livelihood cooperation project of "Silk Road Family" action covers more than 20 fields such as poverty alleviation and disaster relief, humanitarian relief, environmental protection, and women’s exchanges and cooperation, which has had a wide impact.
(B) to add vitality to economic globalization
Against the background of the surging trend of anti-globalization, the "One Belt, One Road" is dedicated to realizing the interconnection and coordinated development of the world, further opening up the main artery of economic globalization, smoothing the flow of information, capital, technology, products, industries and personnel, promoting international cooperation on a larger scale and at a higher level, making it bigger and better to divide the "cake" of economic globalization, and striving to build a balanced, coordinated and inclusive, win-win cooperation and win-win cooperation.
Enhance the momentum of global development. Building the "Belt and Road" will link the active East Asian economic circle, the developed European economic circle and the countries with great economic development potential in the hinterland, further tighten the economic cooperation network with Africa and Latin America, promote the formation of a new global development pattern in which Eurasia is completely connected with the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, and land and sea are integrated, expand the scope and coverage of international division of labor in a broader economic and geographical space, expand the world market, and finally promote the new growth of the world economy. At the same time, the co-construction of the "Belt and Road" has brought the catalytic effect of international investment through infrastructure interconnection, which has stimulated the global interest and enthusiasm for infrastructure investment, which is not only conducive to co-constructing national economic growth and gain development, but also effectively solves the problem of insufficient supply of international public goods and provides sustained impetus for world economic growth.
Deepen regional economic cooperation. Building the "Belt and Road" relies on infrastructure interconnection, promoting all-round and multi-field connectivity among countries, from point to line and then to the surface, gradually amplifying the radiation effect of development, promoting the coordination of economic policies and the docking of institutional mechanisms among countries, innovating cooperation modes, carrying out regional cooperation in a wider scope, at a higher level and at a deeper level, and jointly creating an open, inclusive, balanced and inclusive regional economic cooperation framework to promote the orderly and free flow of economic factors, efficient allocation of resources and deep market integration. Countries make full use of their own factor endowments to enhance the integration, interaction and coordination of industrial chains, promote the complementarity of industrial advantages, improve the efficiency of division of labor, and jointly promote the upgrading of industrial chains; Break trade barriers and market monopoly, release consumption potential, promote cross-border consumption, jointly expand market scale and form a large regional market; Through technology transfer and cooperation in industrial cooperation, we can establish technological interaction and interdependence, jointly improve innovation ability and promote leap-forward development.
Promote the development of global trade. Building the "Belt and Road" in a planned and step-by-step manner promotes the infrastructure construction such as transportation and information and the liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment, eliminates the internal, transnational and interregional transportation bottlenecks and obstacles to trade and investment cooperation, greatly enhances the convenience of foreign trade and cross-border logistics and the efficiency of domestic and international cooperation, builds an all-round, multi-level and compound trade smooth network, promotes the establishment of a new pattern of global trade, and plays an important role in promoting the development of global trade. At the same time, the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has enhanced the attractiveness of participating countries and regions to global high-quality capital and enhanced their position in global cross-border direct investment. Among them, in 2022, the inflow of cross-border direct investment in Southeast Asia accounted for 17.2% of the global total, up 9 percentage points from 2013; The scale of foreign direct investment flowing into Kazakhstan increased by 83% year-on-year, the highest level in history. The World Bank’s "Belt and Road Economics: Opportunities and Risks of Transportation Corridor" research report shows that before the "Belt and Road Initiative" was put forward, the trade of the six economic corridors was less than 30% of their potential, and foreign direct investment was less than 70% of their potential; Since the implementation of the "One Belt, One Road", the global trade cost can be reduced by 1.8% only through infrastructure construction.Reduce the trade cost on the China-Central Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor by 10%, and make an important contribution to global trade facilitation and economic growth; It will increase the trade of participating countries by 2.8%-9.7%, global trade by 1.7%-6.2% and global income by 0.7%-2.9%.
Maintain global supply chain stability. Building the "Belt and Road" is committed to building an efficient and interconnected international channel, which plays an important role in maintaining the stability and smoothness of the global supply chain. During the COVID-19 epidemic, ports and logistics companies canceled or reduced the services of ships and freight, and the global supply chain, which was dominated by shipping, was severely affected. As the fist product of "One Belt, One Road", China-Europe train has effectively improved the level of railway connectivity in Asia and Europe and the development level of multimodal transport such as sea rail, public rail and air rail, opened up a new channel for the supply chain in Asia and Europe, superimposed cooperation in projects such as "China Customs Railway" and railway express, and made important contributions to ensuring the stable operation of the global economy. A number of internationally renowned logistics associations have publicly stated that CEIBS has provided the world with a reliable logistics solution that can effectively alleviate the global supply chain tension and enhance the international logistics support capability.
(3) Providing new solutions for improving global governance.
Managing the deficit is a severe challenge facing the world. Building the "Belt and Road" adheres to true multilateralism, practices the concept of global governance, insists on dialogue without confrontation, tearing down walls without building walls, integrating without decoupling, and being inclusive without exclusivity, which provides a new paradigm for exchanges between countries and promotes the development of the global governance system in a more just and reasonable direction.
The concept of global governance has gained more recognition. The core concept of building the "Belt and Road", such as discussing, building and sharing, has been written into important documents of international organizations and mechanisms such as the United Nations and the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. The concept of a community of human destiny is deeply rooted in people’s hearts. There are more and more bilateral communities of destiny, such as the China-Laos community of destiny and the China-Pakistan community of destiny. The construction of multilateral communities of destiny, such as the China-Africa community of destiny, the China-Latin America community of destiny, the China-ASEAN community of destiny, the China-Central Asia community of destiny, and the China-Pacific island community of destiny, has been steadily promoted, and cyberspace communities of destiny, marine communities of destiny, and human health communities have been constantly taking root. The Global Survey Report on China’s National Image released by the Institute of Contemporary China and the World in 2020 shows that building the Belt and Road Initiative is the most recognized China concept and proposition overseas, and over 70% of overseas respondents recognize the positive significance of building the Belt and Road Initiative for individual, national and global governance. Bruggaier Institute, a European think tank, released the report "Global Cognitive Trends of the Belt and Road Initiative" in April 2023, which pointed out that all countries in the world have a positive evaluation on the overall construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, especially the vast number of developing countries from Central Asia to sub-Saharan Africa have deep feelings for the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative.
The multilateral governance mechanism is more perfect. Building the "Belt and Road" is a vivid practice of multilateralism, adhering to the principles of mutual respect and equal treatment, adhering to openness, tolerance, mutual benefit and win-win, upholding international fairness and justice, and safeguarding the development rights and interests of developing countries. Building the "Belt and Road Initiative" will resolutely safeguard the authority and status of the United Nations, focus on consolidating and strengthening the status and effectiveness of global multilateral governance platforms such as the World Trade Organization, and inject strong impetus into improving the existing multilateral governance mechanism. Building the "Belt and Road Initiative" will actively promote the construction of new multilateral governance mechanisms such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and accelerate the construction of governance mechanisms in emerging fields such as deep sea, polar regions, outer space, network and artificial intelligence with partners, enriching and expanding the connotation and practice of multilateralism. Building the "Belt and Road" has enhanced the position and role of developing countries and emerging economies in the world market system, and enhanced their voice in regional and even global economic governance. The concerns and demands of more developing countries have been included in the global agenda, which is of great significance for reforming and improving global governance.
Innovation and optimization of global governance rules. Building the "Belt and Road" fully takes into account the differences between the partners in terms of economic development level, factor endowment status, cultural and religious traditions, etc., does not presuppose rules and standards, and does not draw a line with ideology. Instead, it is based on the cooperation demands of all parties and the actual situation. Through full consultation and in-depth exchanges, we will jointly study and create rules for new problems in practice. Building a country to achieve strategic docking, planning docking, mechanism docking, docking and mutual recognition of projects and rules and standards not only optimizes the cooperation rules of building the "Belt and Road", but also promotes the transformation from the mobile opening of commodity elements to the rule-based opening, and also forms some rules and standards with strong universality, effectively filling the gaps in the global governance system in these fields.
(D) Gathering the power of civilization for the progress of human society
Civilization exchange and mutual learning is an important driving force to promote the progress of human civilization and the peaceful development of the world. Against the background of individual countries adhering to the thinking of "either one or the other", "black or white", concocting arguments such as "clash of civilizations" and "superiority of civilizations" and engaging in ideological confrontation, we will build the Belt and Road Initiative, adhere to the concept of civilization of equality, mutual learning, dialogue and tolerance, persist in carrying forward the common values of all mankind, and build a road of civilized exchange and mutual learning that is beautiful and beautiful, and promote the formation of the world.
The humanities exchange mechanism is improving day by day. People-to-people exchanges are extensive and rich in content, involving political parties, culture, art, sports, education and many other aspects. The world influence of various multi-bilateral political party exchange mechanisms, such as the Communist Party of China (CPC) Summit with World Political Party Leaders and the Communist Party of China (CPC) High-level Dialogue with World Political Parties, has been continuously enhanced, and the leading role of high-level inter-party exchanges has been fully brought into play, which has brought together consensus and strength to enhance the communication between the people. The Belt and Road think tank cooperation alliance, the Belt and Road tax collection and management capacity promotion alliance, the Belt and Road international scientific organization alliance, the Belt and Road medical personnel training alliance, the Silk Road International Theatre Alliance, the Silk Road Museum Alliance and other cooperation mechanisms have emerged in a concentrated manner, forming a multi-interactive, blooming cultural exchange pattern, which has effectively promoted mutual understanding, mutual respect and mutual appreciation among people of all countries. China, Kyrgyzstan, Iran and other countries in Central Asia and West Asia jointly initiated the establishment of the Asian Cultural Heritage Protection Alliance, established the first international cooperation mechanism in the field of Asian cultural heritage, and jointly protected the cultural heritage as a tangible carrier of civilization. The cultural heritage protection projects such as the restoration project of the ancient city of Shiva were highly praised by UNESCO.
Work together to create a number of high-quality brand projects and activities. The Silk Road (Dunhuang) International Cultural Expo, the Belt and Road Great Wall International Folk Culture and Art Festival, the Silk Road International Art Festival, the Maritime Silk Road International Art Festival, the Belt and Road Youth Story Club and the Wanli Tea Ceremony Cultural Tourism Expo have become popular brands, attracting a large number of people’s active participation. Cultural exchange projects such as Silk Road Family, Healthy Love Package, Luban Workshop, Happiness Spring, Bright Travel, Love Package, International Student Aid Program with a Firehand, Traditional Chinese Medicine Style Tour and Confucius Classroom have won wide acclaim. The continuous emergence of wonderful activities, high-quality brands and landmark projects has become an important carrier for all parties to jointly promote the communication between the people, and has enhanced the intimacy and identity of the people of all countries in building the "Belt and Road".
The power of youth is widely condensed. The future of building the "Belt and Road" belongs to the youth. In the past 10 years, the youth of the country have carried out extensive humanities exchanges and people’s livelihood cooperation with practical actions, which has gathered great youth strength to promote the common development of the people. The "China Youth Global Partnership Action" has received wide global response, and more than 100 national youth organizations and international organizations have established exchanges and cooperation with China. Sixteen "One Belt, One Road" youth story events were held in succession, and more than 1,500 youth representatives from all over the world actively participated. They shared their stories and experiences in promoting social development and their own growth and progress around the themes of poverty alleviation, climate change and anti-epidemic cooperation, and vividly explained how to look at the world from the perspective of appreciation, mutual learning and sharing. The "Silk Road Incubator" Youth Entrepreneurship Program and the China-Central and Eastern European Countries Youth Maker International Forum have been successfully carried out, which have become an important platform for building a national youth to deepen friendly exchanges and cooperation.
V. Promoting high-quality co-construction of the "Belt and Road" to achieve stability and long-term success.
The practice in the past 10 years has fully proved that building the "Belt and Road" conforms to the trend, wins people’s hearts, benefits people’s livelihood and benefits the world. It is the road for all countries to move towards modernization together, and it is also the road of hope for mankind to lead to a better future. It has strong resilience, vigorous vitality and broad development prospects.
At present, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, the competition among big countries is accelerating, the geopolitical situation continues to be tense, the global economic recovery is blocked and long, the cold war mentality and zero-sum mentality are emerging, unilateralism, protectionism and hegemonism are rampant, populism is on the rise, the competition brought about by the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is unprecedented fierce, and the peace deficit, development deficit, security deficit and governance deficit continue to increase, resulting in foreseeable and unpredictable risks around the world. Individual countries generalize the concept of "national security" and "decouple and break the chain" in the name of "removing risks", which undermines the international economic and trade order and market rules, endangers the security and stability of the international industrial chain supply chain, blocks international humanities and scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation, and creates obstacles to the long-term development of mankind. In an uncertain and unstable world, countries urgently need to bridge their differences through dialogue, oppose separatism through unity, and promote development through cooperation. The significance of building the "Belt and Road" is becoming more and more obvious and the prospects are worth looking forward to.
In the long run, the trend of multi-polarization in the world has not changed, the general direction of economic globalization has not changed, the trend of the times of peace, development, cooperation and win-win has not changed, the desire of people of all countries to pursue a better life has not changed, the momentum of the overall rise of developing countries has not changed, and China’s position and responsibility as the largest developing country have not changed. Although the "Belt and Road Initiative" faces some difficulties and challenges, as long as all countries can jointly manage risks, meet challenges and promote cooperation from their own long-term interests and the overall interests of mankind, the future of building the "Belt and Road Initiative" is full of hope.
As a responsible developing country, China will continue to take the "Belt and Road Initiative" as the master plan for opening up and cooperation with foreign countries, as the top-level design of the win-win path for China and the world, open wider, wider and deeper to the outside world, steadily expand the institutional opening of rules, regulations, management and standards, build a new open economic system with a higher level, achieve high-quality development in the opening up, and provide new opportunities for the world with the new development of China. China is willing to invest more resources in global development cooperation, do its best to support and help developing countries to accelerate their development, enhance the voice of emerging market countries and developing countries in global governance, and make positive contributions to the common development of all countries in the world. China sincerely welcomes more countries and international organizations to join the "One Belt, One Road" family, and welcomes all initiatives that really help developing countries build infrastructure and promote common development, so as to jointly promote world connectivity and global sustainable development.
On the road of building the "Belt and Road" with high quality, every co-construction country is an equal participant, contributor and beneficiary. China is willing to work with all parties to strengthen confidence and maintain determination, continue to promote the "One Belt, One Road" international cooperation based on the principle of mutual cooperation, joint construction and sharing, consolidate the foundation of cooperation, expand cooperation areas, do excellent cooperation projects, create new opportunities for development, seek common development momentum, jointly develop new space, share new development achievements, and build closer health partnerships, interconnected partnerships, green development partnerships, and openness and tolerance.
Concluding remarks
An idea has activated the memory of civilization for more than two thousand years; An initiative has inspired the enthusiasm of more than 150 countries to realize their dreams.
The "One Belt, One Road" has been built for 10 years, which has brought remarkable and profound changes to the world and become a landmark event in the history of human social development.
As a long-term, cross-border and systematic world project and century project, the first decade of building the "Belt and Road" is just a preface. Starting from a new historical starting point, building the "Belt and Road" will be more innovative and dynamic, more open and inclusive, and open a new window of opportunity for China and the world.
Facing the future, there will still be some difficulties in building the "Belt and Road", but as long as all parties work together with one heart and one mind, they can constantly overcome various risks and challenges, achieve higher-quality business cooperation, joint construction and sharing, and make the "Belt and Road" more and more prosperous and broader.
China is willing to work with other countries to unswervingly promote the high-quality construction of the "Belt and Road", implement global development initiatives, global security initiatives and global civilization initiatives, and build a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness, tolerance, cleanliness and beauty, so that the fire of peace can be passed down from generation to generation, the driving force of development can continue, the light of civilization can shine, and a beautiful picture of the community of human destiny can be drawn together!
