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Opportunities for Closer Business Contact with China Along the “Belt and Road”
The opportunities for “closer business contact” brought about by the Belt and Road Initiative have overcome many geographic, cultural and institutional barriers, starting to help the world out of the haze of the economic crisis and lead humankind into a community with a shared future to seek mutual development and prosperity.For many countries in the world, joining the Belt and Road Initiative allows them to take full advantage of the available opportunities to profit from association with China, whose economy is growing rapidly, and benefit from win-win cooperation. The first point for closer business contact undoubtedly comes from China’s economic advantages. Economic prosperity has been the historical basis of the prosperity of the Silk Road, and the development of the contemporary Chinese economy has laid a foundation for the regeneration of the ancient Silk Road. China is now the world’s second largest economy, largest exporter of goods and second largest importer. China also has the world’s largest foreign exchange reserves, with the annual scale of Chinese foreign investment exceeding USD100 billion, and 100 million Chinese tourists travel abroad each year. Since the international financial crisis broke out in 2008, China has made continuous contributions to global economic growth, and has accounted for over 30% of growth since that time. Profiting from association with China through the Belt and Road Initiative is equivalent to becoming a partner of the world’s most active economy, and to hitching onto the driving locomotive of the global economy. Closer business contact makes it possible to share China’s philosophy of cooperation. We live in a world of many civilizations and cultural differences, and should be tolerant of one another. The culturally diverse countries each have their own development path, and should respect each other. The ancient Silk Road was jointly built on the premise of mutual inclusiveness and respect by countries of different social systems, development levels, and religious, and cultural backgrounds. The Belt and Road Initiative is destined to continue and revive the spirit of the ancient Silk Road to achieve “peaceful cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning, and mutual benefits”, as well as apply the idea of win-win cooperation to areas such as politics, economics, security, and culture, replace confrontation with cooperation, and replace monopolistic hegemony with mutual benefit. This is China’s initiative, and is the shared expectation that all participating countries wish to realize. Closer business contact makes it possible to share China’s development strategy. The China Dream is a dream of peace, development, cooperation, and mutual prosperity, and is of a kind with the dreams of all peoples of all nations. The Belt and Road Initiative is nothing less than a bridge between the China Dream and the World Dream. Implementation has shown that the Belt and Road Initiative meets the needs of its participating countries involved, and has gained widespread popularity among them. From Kazakhstan, which is implementing its “Nurly Zhol” economic and infrastructure initiative, to Mongolia, which is implementing its own “Steppe Road” Program, to Laos, which is turning itself from a “landlocked state” into a “land-linked state”, Indonesia, which plans to build a “maritime highway”, and Russia, which is implementing a “Far East Development Strategy”, are all looking forward to achieving joint development with China. Based on the basic principles of joint consultation, joint construction, and sharing, the Belt and Road Initiative is committed to breaking bottlenecks in infrastructure, trade investments, and regulatory frameworks to make it easier for countries to interact with one another. Closer business contact makes it possible to share China’s global governance program. The Belt and Road Initiative is an important public resource provided for the world by China. Not only does it reflect China’s new targets for reform and opening-up, but it has also opened up a new round of globalization led by China. China is crystal clear in its opposition to trade protectionism, and is supportive in building infrastructure such as bridges, roads, and ports to establish platforms for common development that will promote the liberalization and facilitation of trade and investments as a part of China’s policy of opening-up. The BRI has gained widespread popularity in the international community; more than 100 countries and international organizations to date have expressed their willingness to actively support the initiative and take part in it. China has also signed a cooperative agreement with more than 40 countries and international organizations on the joint construction of the “Belt and Road”. As anti-globalization becomes a rising trend, the Belt and Road Initiative has created conditions for many countries around the world to hook themselves on to “free-ride” in China’s development. Closer business contact also makes it possible to share the great exploration and experimentation in building a community for humankind that possesses a shared future. Infrastructure construction along the Belt and Road can strengthen the links between the two huge economies of East Asia and Europe. This will be a grand geopolitical linkage between both East and West. By cooperating with regional states along the Belt and Road, China can spread the spirit of the Silk Road to promote the progress of human civilization and drive the prosperous development of all participating countries. This also means creating linkages between history and present reality. Under the conditions of a globalized world, these integrating “linkages” have overcome countless geographic, cultural, and institutional barriers, and have begun leading the world out of the haze of the economic crisis and guiding humankind toward a community with a shared future, oriented around mutual development and prosperity. We may expect that the Belt and Road Initiative shall spur the ancient Silk Road to create new miracles to make the world more integrated and prosperous. |