Belt and Road transforming vision into rewarding actions

Like it or not, the Belt and Road Initiative, which some have never stopped stigmatizing as a debt trap or a geopolitical tool from day one, has thrived to become the most productive driver of global growth and interconnectivity.

So far, 126 countries and 29 international organizations have signed cooperation agreements of various kinds under the framework of the initiative. Over the past six years, the total trade volume between China and the other participating countries has surpassed $6 trillion and 82 industrial parks have been established, creating nearly 300,000 local jobs.

Instead of being suppressed and marginalized as some hoped, the Belt and Road Initiative has demonstrated increasingly strong vitality, which lies in its pertinence to the needs of the world, and its emphases on inclusiveness, collectivism and sharing have endowed the initiative with great practical significance.