Belt and Road lead the way to rising trade and investment

The Government Work Report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang on Monday reflected both the rosy and not-so-rosy sides of China's economic and social development.

On the rosy side, China's GDP has risen from 54 trillion yuan ($8.52 trillion) to 82.7 trillion yuan over the past five years, with its share in the global economy growing to roughly 15 percent and its contribution to global growth exceeding 30 percent.

China's economic activities with other economies last year showed the country's growing capacity to help rebalance the world economy and determination to realize win-win global cooperation. That contention is supported by China's overall trade and investment flow vis-a-vis the rest of the world and by the figures related to its economic relations with the economies that are involved in the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative.