Strong policies helping China connect to the wider world

Strong, stabilizing foreign policies such as the Belt and Road Initiative are helping to connect China to the wider world, especially through infrastructure investment, high speed trains and major construction projects around the world, a new survey said.

The survey, conducted by leading consultancy firm Edelman also revealed that Chinese firms have been making significant progress, when it comes to trust perception.

Though trust in brands made by companies headquartered in China has risen at home, it has remained flat globally in the past five years and companies must focus more on reputation building, said the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer. The survey was jointly conducted by Edelman China and the National Image Research Center of Tsinghua University and released on Mar 22 in Beijing.