China-ASEAN strengthen cooperation in customs connectivity to boost `Belt and Road` development

Participants of the China-ASEAN Customs Connectivity High-Level Workshop reached a consensus in Nanning, the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Sept 18.

Belt and Road good for China, ASEAN

The ancient maritime silk road once facilitated trade and cultural exchange between China and its Southeast Asian neighbors. Hopes are high that its successor, the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, will inject new impetus into regional development.

China`s "Belt and Road" initiatives open new opportunities for U.S. businesses

"The One Belt, One Road initiatives are an ambitious forward-looking plan, opening new opportunities that American businesses can benefit from," Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg L.P. and former New York City mayor said on Wednesday.

Culture expected to consolidate cooperation among Silk Road countries

The Second Silk Road International Culture Forum, which kicked off here Tuesday, is expected to consolidate cooperation through cultural exchanges under the framework of "Belt and Road."

Myanmar academic urges Belt and Road promotion

A senior Myanmar academic has urged China to raise awareness of the Belt and Road regional trade and infrastructure network, ahead of a forum that provides a big chance to promote the scheme.

Sino-Arab Belt and Road symposium opens

The Belt and Road regional trade and infrastructure network can help the Arab world with its modernization drive, according to the 60 academics and experts from 10 Arab countries convened at a symposium in Shanghai on Tuesday.

EU, China hold workshop to discuss "New Silk Road" strategy

High-level officials and influential experts gathered here on Monday and started to discuss European perspectives on China`s ambitious "Belt and Road" initiatives, or the New Silk Road strategy.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Afghanistan

The Challenges of Building the New Silk Road Economic Belt

On September 7, 2013, during a speech on China’s Central Asia strategy at the Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, President Xi Jinping proposed that China and Central Asian countries build an “economic belt along the Silk Road”, a trans-Eurasian spanning from the Pacific Ocean to the Baltic Sea. Xi said the proposed economic belt is inhabited by “close to 3 billion people and represents the biggest market in the world with unparalleled potential”. To create the new economic belt, Xi sug

British maritime industry seeks opportunities in China`s

Britain and China are expected to improve bilateral maritime cooperation in the "Belt and Road" initiative, chairman of Maritime London Lord Mountevans said Wednesday.

One world two systems

The Chinese method is known as the scientific path. It means policies will be researched, tested and then developed. So the Silk Roads have been in the planning for several decades. It is part of the context of creating a moderately prosperous nation by 2049 based upon Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. Clearly as China moved 4/500 million peasants off the land to the towns and cities and created a manufacturing global capability and a service industry to match, a new vision of a nations de

Think tank forum to build intellectual union

A think tank forum was held on Saturday, with the aim of building an intellectual union with clashes and exchanges of ideas about China`s "Belt and Road" Initiatives.

Fu Ying speaks at "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" Forum in Singapore

Fu Ying, chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the 12th Chinese National People`s Congress, speaks at the Singapore Regional Business Forum in Singapore on July 27, 2015. The Singapore Business Federation organized the Singapore Regional Business Forum with the theme "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" on Monday.

Countries show interest in joining ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative

Countries in Asia, Europe and South America are responding to China`s "One Belt, One Road" call, with a number of government officials expressing eagerness to participate in the initiative at a forum on Thursday.

Wang Yiwei：One Belt One Road: Opportunities for Europe-China cooperation

Further East still, OBOR is an entry point for the EU into Asia-Pacific affairs. Since the United States put forward its “return to Asia” strategy, the EU has been concerned it will be marginalised. EU efforts to accelerate the promotion of free trade agreements with Asian countries have made less-than-satisfactory progress. OBOR would make it much easier for Europe to participate in Asia-Pacific affairs.

Wang-Yiwei：Overcoming cognitive risks of Belt and Road Initiative

Some countries believe that initiative forms a closed loop. They even draw it as a closed loop on currently popular maps. Actually it is open: a network of capital construction, investment, business and information, rolling the economic corridors into one. It emphasizes starting a new concept of regional and international cooperation for the 21st century rather than following the well-beaten track of expansionist western countries.

Triple missions of Belt and Road Initiative

Is the Belt and Road Initiative China’s Marshall Plan?Such questions were frequently raised with me after I finished speaking about the belt and road at the Italian think-tank Istituto Per Gil Studi Di Politica Internazionale. It therefore seems the ideal time for the Boao Forum to seek consensus and publish a white paper on the Belt and Road Initiative.

The “New Silk Road” and the Development of Sino-Iranian Relations

On Jan 5th, Dr. Flynn Leverett, the professor at University of Pennsylvania, and Hillary Mann Leverett, the CEO of STRATEGA, made a speech with the topic of Silk Road.

Chinese think tanks strive for global influence

China`s think tanks, which have received little exposure in the past, have recently enjoyed significant attention from the media and policy makers, although they still have a way to go before they become influential on the global stage. At the end of June, the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University held a think tank forum themed "The Silk Road Economic Belt Construction and Future" in Beijing.

Sino-Iranian ties may thrive on new Silk Road

Iran is embracing Chinese President Xi Jinping’s proposal to revive the old land Silk Road, which used to connect ancient civilizations like China and Iran, Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati, president of the Center for Strategic Research in Iran, said on Friday during a tour to Beijing.Velayati, also the former Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, made his remark in a forum on "Economic Cooperation between China and Iran and the Future Prospects" held by the Chongyang Institute for Financial