President pledges to step up bilateral cooperation, ties with continent and teamwork in building Belt, Road President Xi Jinping accompanies Cote d'Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday. [Photo by Feng Yongbin/China Daily] Greater development synergy sought alongside Cote d'Ivoire China and Cote d'Ivoire should take the building of Belt and Road as an opportunity to seek greater synergy between development strategies and promote high-quality and sustainable development of the two countries, President Xi Jinping said on Thursday.
The construction of the Belt and Road brought effective investment and valuable assets to participating countries rather than the so-called debt trap, a senior Chinese official told a press conference on Monday, stressing that it boosted local economy and improved people’s livelihood as well. Ning Jizhe, chief of the National Bureau of Statistics and deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, said so when refuting the doubts that China, by providing loans to Belt and Road projects without considering the debt situation and paying ability of involved countries, increased the debt burdens of host countries and in this way took control of them.
A foreign student takes a selfie at her graduation ceremony at Zhejiang University on June 28, 2018. (Photo/Xinhua) President Xi Jinping has called on young people from China and Africa to continue to follow and proactively take part in the joint building of the Belt and Road and support China-Africa solidarity and cooperation.
An Egyptian worker directs engineering vehicles at the construction site of a new terminal basin in Sokhna Port of Suez Governorate, Egypt, Aug. 28, 2018.
