Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. The full text speech is very informative, here is the simplified version.
Summarize the core of Silk Road spirit
Peace and cooperation, Openness and inclusiveness, Mutual learning, Mutual benefit
Study and judge the current world situation
--From the historical perspective: humankind has reached an age of great progress, great transformation and profound changes.
--In terms of reality, we find ourselves in a world fraught with challenges. Deficit in peace, development and governance poses a daunting challenge to mankind.
Rich fruit of the Belt and Road Initiative in these four years
--Over 100 countries and international organization have supported and got involved in this initiative. Important resolutions passed by the UN General Assembly and Security Council contain reference to it.
--These four years have seen deepened policy connectivity, enhanced infrastructure connectivity, increased trade connectivity, expanded financial connectivity, and strengthened people-to-people connectivity.
The next construction goals
To build the Belt and Road into a road for peace, prosperity, opening up, innovation and connecting different civilizations.
China promises to do these great events
--the Chinese railway authorities will sign agreements with their counterparts of related countries to deepen coorperation on China-Europe regular railway cargo service.
--China will scale up financing support for the Belt and Road Initiative by contributing an additional RMB 100 billion to Silk Road fund, and
--The China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China will set up special lending schemes respectively worth RMB 250 billion equivalent on infrastructure, industrial capacity and financing.
--China will sign business and trade cooperation agreements with related countries.
--China will host the China International Import Expo starting from 2018.
--In the next five years, China will offer young foreign scientists 2,500 short-term research visits to China and train 5,000 foreign scientists, engineers and managers, and set up 50 joint laboratories with countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative to enhance cooperation on innovation
--China will provide assistance worth 60 billion yuan (8.7 billion U.S. dollars) in the coming three years to developing countries and international organizations participating in the Belt and Road Initiative to improve people's well-being.
--China will provide emergency food aid worth 2 billion yuan to developing countries along the Belt and Road and make an additional contribution of 1 billion U.S. dollars to the Assistance Fund for South-South Cooperation
China will launch 100 "happy home" projects, 100 poverty alleviation projects and 100 health care and rehabilitation projects in countries along the Belt and Road.
Cooperation scope of Belt and Road
The Belt and Road Initiative focuses on the Asian, European and African countries, but is also open to all other countries. All countries, from either Asia, Europe, Africa or the Americas, can be international cooperation partners of the Belt and Road Initiative.
China has reached a new starting point in its development endeavors. Guided by the vision of innovative, coordinated, green, open and inclusive development, President Xi emphasized that we will adapt to and steer the new normal of economic develop and seize opportunities it presents. We will actively promote supply-side structural reform to achieve sustainable development, inject strong impetus into the Belt and Road Initiative and create new opportunities for global development.
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