Barking and Dagenham, one of London's poorest and most neglected boroughs, has found new fame as the most westerly point of China's new Silk Road rail route.
London's banking sector is working hard to embrace financing activities along the routes of the Belt and Road Initiative.
In January, I watched the first-ever China-UK freight train pull into London's Barking Station in front of a crowd of reporters, several diplomats and a troupe of lion dancers.
Chinese rail vehicle manufacturer CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive will upgrade its facilities in Malaysia this year as it looks to win the service contract for the upcoming Singapore-Malaysia high-speed rail project, its chairman said.
China National Machinery Industry, the nation's largest machinery maker by production capacity, is to build more research and development facilities, warehouses, home appliances and parts plants in the China-Belarus Industrial Park this year.
China Communications Construction Co, one of the country's biggest infrastructure project providers by market share, will boost its overseas sales revenue to 50 percent of its total by 2035 via the development of the Belt and Road Initiative, diversified operation models, and overseas mergers and acquisitions, according to its chairman.
Editor's Note: As China holds an international forum on the Belt and Road Initiative in Beijing next month, China Daily talks with business leaders over their views and their participation in the developments.
Having seen the ETU School in Beijing develop from an idea to a facility with 15 full-time teachers and more than 30 students, co-founder Li Yinuo is confident of success and feels ready to take the next step.
The Beijing Ririxin School: Wang Xiaofeng, his wife Zhang Dongqing and a group of parents established the school in 2006. The campus is located in an orchard in Changping district to ensure the children grow up in an environment that's close to nature.
Li Yinuo, one of the three founders of the ETU School, said she and her peers learned from other innovative schools throughout the founding process. One of their models was AltSchool, an educational startup that features personalized study and which Li's eldest son attended for a year before the family returned to China. The school was established in San Francisco by Max Ventilla, one of the founders of Google Plus, in 2014.
At 1.62 meters tall and weighing 52 kilograms, Chen Xuhua, from Jinan, Shandong province, looks much younger than her 77 years.
For almost three decades, Liu Jingxu and his wife have cared for his learning-disabled elder brother in Qingdao, Shandong province.
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