Belt, Road will help connect Asia, Latin America

The head of a top Latin American financial institution said the Belt and Road Initiative could help inject new dynamism into the world economy, as well as generate new ideas to foster more connectivity between Asia and Latin America.

Luis Carranza Ugarte, executive president and CEO of the Development Bank of Latin America, made the remark in an interview with China Daily before attending the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing.

Carranza said he thinks the BRI has "a clear ambition to create opportunities for strategic integration between China and Latin America and the Caribbean, and the world as a whole.