Uk Further Embraces Belt & Road Initiative

Britain hopes to provide services across a range of sectors to aid expansion of the Chinese project. Angus McNeice reports from London.

Editor's note: This is the fourth installment of China Daily's special series on the Belt and Road Initiative. Friday marks the one-month countdown to the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing in May.

This year, the United Kingdom became the westernmost point in the Belt and Road Initiative's sprawling land-transportation network when a freight train crossed the deserts and mountains of Eurasia on the 12,400 km journey from Yiwu, Zhejiang province, on China's eastern coast, to Barking Station in London.