I think the Belt and Road Initiative can help improve connectivity between countries and facilitate international trade.
Many visitors to the imposing Nairobi Terminus, a major station of the Chinese-built Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya's capital, marvel at the design of the complex.
When former cabin crew member Kennedy Mugo told his friends and relatives that he was leaving his familiar Kenya Airways job to join a new train services company in town, many of them questioned his decision.
The major leather industry in Ethiopia has recorded rapid growth with increasing prospects for development, but the environmental sector is also gearing up to tackle the significant challenge posed by byproduct waste management related to the tanneries.
"The weather in Zambia is good these days, and my mood is as good as the weather!" said Liu Shaobing, chief representative to Zambia of Inspur Group Co Ltd, China's largest server maker.
On Sunday, hundreds of Romanians formed long lines at a shopping center in Bucharest to attend the opening ceremony of a consumer electronics brand's first store in the country. The store is not owned by Apple Inc, but Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi.
For Urooj Hyat, a senior administration officer for the Karot Hydropower Project, working with local and Chinese employees at a massive dam construction site in northwestern Pakistan is like being part of a big family.
At Uthiru Primary School in Kenya's Kiambu County, grade six students are glued to a video screen, quietly following an educational program.
The Karot Hydropower Project, the star of the Belt and Road Initiative in Pakistan, is making history.
Since being proposed by President Xi Jinping in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative has been promoting economic development along the Belt and Road routes, and thereby facilitating global development. And given the uncertainties facing the world today, the Belt and Road Initiative has become a new engine for global growth.
This year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, together with four other ministries, released the "Guidance on Promoting a Green Belt and Road". Realizing this ambition requires green finance - the full range of financial services that support the transformation to an environmentally and climate-friendly economy.
The values of multilateralism and mutual benefit that the Belt and Road Initiative stands for should be upheld against the backdrop that unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, experts said.
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