Editor's note: Progress on the Belt and Road Initiative: a four-year evaluation is included in Regional Connection Under the Belt and Road Initiative: The Prospects For Economic and Financial Cooperation edited by Fanny M. Cheung and Ying-yi Hong which was publish by Routledge in New York in 2019. The author is Wang Wen, the executive dean of RDCY, Jia Jinjing, the director of the Marco Research Department of RDCY, Xiang Junyong, the research fellow of RDCY and Liu Ying, the research fellow of RDCY.