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Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia, interviewed by CCTV on “Belt and Road” during the “2016 Silk Road Economic Belt Cities International Forum” held in Yiwu on Nov.11.

Rudd said that Belt and Road is a pan-continental infrastructure initiative. For the regional countries, they are optimistic for this project, but for the rest of the world, they are still in wait and see attitude, to see what happens with Belt and Road.

Rudd noted that Belt and Road has much potential, because the global economy is bad, and the world are looking for increases in growth. One of the areas is the infrastructure investment that has been identified by the G20, so China put forward the infrastructure proposal, and develop Asian Development Bank, silk road fund and silk road investment fund. that should be good news from the global perspective, because all of these promoted the economic growth.

Rudd said that the world should have positive project. When China conduct the Belt and Road in Pan Asia, it is an opportunity to promote the concrete growth of global economy. It is good for China and the world.