Foreign journalists leaf through materials at the media center of the second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, April 23, 2019. (Photo/Han Xiaoming, People’s Daily) In a report titled “The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): Progress, Contributions and Prospects”, China reviewed and summarized its experiences of the Belt and Road construction in the past five some years.
BEIJING, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Six years on, it has been no easy task for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to evolve from a Chinese proposal to a platform that has bonded more than 150 countries and international organizations for common development. Groundless criticism keeps arising.
BEIJING, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Centuries ago, on the backs of camels and by ship, through sun-scorched deserts and turbulent waves, merchants and explorers traveled back and forth along the ancient land and maritime Silk Road and galvanized trade and contact between East and West. Today, China, inspired by the legacy of this historical commercial route, has proposed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), seeking to pool the efforts of the world to blaze a new path towards shared development and common prosperity.
ISTANBUL, April 25 (Xinhua) -- The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an inclusive project that promotes regional peace and growth, said a Turkish scholar. The BRI "will furnish the people of all countries along the route with a safer, richer and more peaceful living environment," said Akkan Suver, chairman of Turkey's leading non-governmental organization (NGO) Marmara Group Strategic and Social Research Foundation.
