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.
In the eastern suburb of Minsk, capital city of Belarus, stands the China-Belarus Industrial Park, the nation's largest foreign investment project and an important symbol of cooperation between China and Belarus under the Belt and Road Initiative.
Universities in Belarus are showing great interest in expanding their cooperation with Chinese schools due to a rising demand for Chinese-speaking graduates and an increasing number of students interested in learning to speak Chinese.
On my third visit to the Great Stone China-Belarus Industrial Park, I invited two locals to tell about living their "Belarusian dream" in the nation's largest foreign investment project.
Last summer, 27-year-old Egyptian Fathy Shehata was desperate for a job. Having completed a work stint in Saudi Arabia, he was also recently married and his wife was pregnant.
During my interviews in Egypt, one of the countries participating in the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, I experienced firsthand how people's lives were changing for the better.
A new industrial zone is thriving in a desert area of Egypt, fueling growth in the local economy and enriching people's lives, according to an Egyptian executive of a China-invested project.
China aims to place a scientific research station near the moon's south pole in about 10 years, as well as conduct other exploration missions using astronauts on the lunar surface, a senior space official said on Wednesday.
Beijing resolutely opposes the recent $500 million military deal between the United States and Taiwan, calling the move "a complete mistake" and "very dangerous", a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense said on Wednesday.
A spokesman for the Chinese mainland said on Wednesday that the mainland has never interfered in elections in Taiwan and that it never will. He was responding to recent comments by island authorities and the United States.
A court in Hong Kong jailed leaders of the so-called Occupy movement on Wednesday for up to 16 months for their roles in protests that brought much of the city to a virtual standstill in 2014.
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