Initiative a 'boulevard' of innovation for globe

China will expand scientific cooperation and talent training, enhance intellectual property protection, and build new joint laboratories and innovation centers with countries and regions involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, officials said on Thursday.

These efforts aim to make the BRI countries more innovative, prosperous and sustainable in their development, and further improve the health and livelihood of the people from these regions and the world, they said.

"China is a participant and beneficiary of the globalization of science and technology, and it's a contributor and leader in promoting scientific cooperation," Wang Zhigang, minister of science and technology, said at a themed subforum on innovation at the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.