Chinese, foreign experts talk of shared values of Silk Road program

Putting onions and carrots together will make soup both delicious and nutritious.

This is an interpretation of harmony - the Confucian philosophy that is at the core of the Chinese civilization - which is also the spirit behind China's cooperation with other countries, big and small, especially with regard to the Belt and Road Initiative, Thaddeus Metz, a professor of philosophy and religion with the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, said in a speech at the 2017 Symposium on Chinese Studies earlier this week.

Co-hosted by the Ministry of Culture and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences first in 2013, the symposium has been aiming to build a professional platform for exchange of thoughts among scholars from home and overseas.