It has built a new platform for international trade and investment
As the platform effect of infrastructure connectivity continues to expand, China and co-authors face new opportunities to deepen cooperation and common development
Things flow smoothly, people enjoy their actions, and development is like adding wings. Relying on the China-Halian Yungang Logistics Cooperation Base, landlocked Kazakhstan has access to the sea. By taking the China-Europe freight train, European apples can be sold to the Chinese market nearly 10,000 kilometers away, and coffee from Yunnan can also enter the European market. Chinese agricultural enterprises have worked with Lao experts to cultivate high-quality fragrant rice, helping build an export industry chain and ending the history of zero rice export in Laos. Since China COSCO Shipping Group took a stake in Piraeus Port in Greece, the comprehensive index has returned to the list of the world's top ten shipping hubs... The Belt and Road Initiative has put more countries on the path of greater opening-up, and the benefits of connectivity and opening-up have deeply benefited the people of the countries and regions that jointly build the Belt and Road.
Even if separated by thousands of rivers and mountains, we can walk out of a mutually beneficial road. The Belt and Road is an open road, and unimpeded trade is an important part of the Belt and Road cooperation. We will promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, reduce transaction costs and business costs, unleash development potential, and broaden and deepen countries' participation in economic globalization. The Belt and Road Initiative has become a popular international public good and a platform for international cooperation, providing an important platform for building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Since ancient times, connectivity has been the pursuit of human society. Only through connectivity can the economic blood flow be more smooth and the potential of economic and social development be fully tapped. Cost competitiveness is an important factor why the Belt and Road Initiative can promote the continuous expansion of trade scale. Infrastructure connectivity can effectively reduce trade costs and improve trade efficiency. At present, 86 China-Europe freight trains have been launched, connecting more than 200 cities in 25 European countries, and the new land-sea Corridor in the western part of the world has brought goods to more than 300 ports in more than 100 countries. These open corridors have laid a solid foundation for jointly building countries to enhance connectivity and enhance economic and trade cooperation. As the platform effect of infrastructure connectivity continues to expand, China and co-authors face new opportunities to deepen cooperation and common development.
The continuous improvement of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation is another important reason. Innovating trade cooperation mechanisms and strengthening policy coordination will help promote market opening and remove trade barriers. The Belt and Road Initiative not only promotes the "hard connectivity" of land, sea, air and Internet, but also strengthens the "soft connectivity" of policies, rules and standards. It has opened up channels for trade and investment cooperation, provided a better business environment and institutional guarantee, and helped create a new pattern of deeply complementary and highly win-win cooperation. It is understood that the customs clearance time for agricultural products from Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries to reach the Chinese market has been shortened by 90%. At the same time, cross-border e-commerce and other new business forms and models are emerging, becoming an important new force for promoting unimpeded trade, and bringing more trade opportunities to co-build countries.
Over the past few decades, a considerable number of developing countries have not been included in global value chains due to factors such as inadequate connectivity and weak infrastructure, and have even become "forgotten corners" of economic globalization. The Belt and Road Initiative promotes industrial cooperation and technology dissemination, which meets the urgent need of jointly building countries to promote industrialization, modernization and improve infrastructure. It has built a new platform for international trade and investment and found new growth points for the world economy. Thai-china Rayong Industrial Park, China-Indonesia Integrated Industrial Park, Ethiopia Oriental Industrial Park, China-Belarus Industrial Park... Through sincere cooperation, the parks are full of vitality, giving co-authors an opportunity to catch the train of economic globalization and raise the level of industrialization. At the same time, they have deepened international cooperation on production capacity, which is conducive to jointly building an open and inclusive world economy and providing more opportunities for the business communities of all countries.
Crossing mountains and oceans, the Silk Road is a miracle of connectivity created by ancient people. Today, the ocean ship is splitting the waves, and the "steel camel team" crosses the continent, continuing to write the story of the Silk Road in the new era. Living in the same global village, mankind has increasingly become a community with a shared future. Taking the 10th anniversary of Belt and Road cooperation as a new starting point, we should speed up the docking of development strategies, promote trade liberalization and facilitation, and expand industrial and investment cooperation. Opening-up will bring new bright prospects for global development.
