Silk Road forum touts potential benefits of BRI

More than 300 scholars, government officials and international organization representatives from home and abroad shared their views and latest research on the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road at a forum in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, over the weekend.

With the theme 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and High Quality Development, the Fourth International Think Tank of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road 2019 forum was organized by the Guangdong Institute for International Strategies, the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

Pornchai Danvivathana, secretary-general of the 35-member Asia Cooperation Dialogue, said the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road coincides with one of the organization's priorities in the next few years - maritime cooperation.