Belt and Road bolsters common development

Editor's Note: At the Third International Forum on Belt and Road Initiative and Global Governance co-hosted by Fudan University and the Silk Road Think Tank Association recently, scholars, entrepreneurs and officials shared their views on how to transform the Belt and Road from an initiative to a successful shared endeavor. Following are excerpts from the speeches delivered by three experts:

Belt and Road bolsters economic globalization

Economic globalization has mainly benefited coastal economies from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Belt and Road Initiative, however, has prompted landlocked economies in Asia to further integrate into the world economy by connecting them to the coastal economies, and thus raised globalization to a new level.