This year marks the tenth anniversary of the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative. Over the past decade, local cooperation has become an important basis for two-way, multi-level and all-round cooperation among countries building the Belt and Road Initiative.
Over the past ten years, Chinese local governments and enterprises have actively participated in practical cooperation in various fields such as infrastructure, economy, trade, and science and technology, and achieved fruitful results.
As the leading city in China’s economy, Shanghai uses its own advantages to actively carry out local cooperation and promote high-quality development of the “Belt and Road” construction with the goal of “high standards, sustainability, and benefiting people’s livelihood”.
On the Mekong River in central Cambodia, the Grotchima Bridge, built by a Shanghai company, spans both sides of the river and has become a “people-benefiting bridge” connecting the two ends of the bridge, Stentlang County, Kampong Cham Province and Grotchima County, Thebunkhmun Province. Bridge” has also become a “bridge of friendship” symbolizing the friendship between the Cambodian and Chinese peoples.
△Screenshot of Cambodia’s “Khmer Times” website report
Lin Sidani, then State Secretary of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport of CambodiaWhen talking about the official opening of the bridge, he said: “Shanghai Construction Engineering is our long-term partner and an old friend. We have great trust in the quality of each project delivered to us by our old friend.”
△On November 23, 2021, Cambodia’s then Prime Minister Hun Sen (middle) cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony of the Stentlang-Grochma Mekong River Bridge project. (Picture from the official website of Shanghai Construction Engineering Group)
Shandong, a major economic province, also takes advantage of its geographical and transportation advantages in land and sea connectivity to continuously expand and deepen local cooperation under the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative.
In September this year, as an important project of China-Bosnia and Herzegovina’s “One Belt, One Road” cooperation, the main line of the Sarajevo tram upgrading and reconstruction project undertaken by a Shandong company was completed, becoming the first European city tram upgrading and reconstruction project in which a Chinese company participated. .
△China Global Television (CGTN) report with pictures
Bashovic, Deputy Minister of Transport of Sarajevo RegionThanks to Chinese companies for their huge contributions to improving local transportation infrastructure conditions.
“This project is of great significance to Sarajevo – for nearly 70 years, Sarajevo’s roads have not had a chance to be repaired. Thank you to the Chinese companies for doing such a good job! This is a successful case, and we hope to have more with excellent Chinese companies in the future possible cooperation.”
As of September this year, the “Aerial Silk Road” from Zhengzhou to Luxembourg has covered more than 200 cities in Europe, Asia and the Americas, becoming a distinctive brand in the construction of the “Belt and Road”.
△On November 16, 2022, the Zhengzhou-Luxembourg “Aerial Silk Road” International Cooperation Forum opened.
Li Dongke, general manager and vice chairman of Henan Civil Aviation Development Investment Group Co., Ltd., recently stated at a press conference to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Henan Province’s participation in the joint construction of the “Belt and Road Initiative” that the “Aerial Silk Road” will fly to new heights, and Henan Province and Luxembourg’s cooperation will also reach a new level.
Richard Forson, President and CEO of Cargolux, also expressed on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative that he looked forward to more cooperation between Luxembourg and Henan in the future.
△Cargolux Zhengzhou line cargo aircraft
As an important starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, Fujian has made full use of its geographical advantages at the forefront of coastal opening up and its developed private economy in the past ten years to continuously strengthen local cooperation with “Belt and Road” partners and broaden the path to common development.
Located on the eastern border of Kazakhstan, the China-Kazakhstan International Industrial New City Park is only 5 kilometers away from China’s Horgos Port and covers an area of 45 square kilometers. Xiamen companies participated in the construction. In the future, this park will become an important distribution center for China’s high-tech and advanced manufacturing enterprises in Kazakhstan.
In the past ten years, Hainan has continued to unblock air trade channels with an “Aerial Silk Road” that has grown from scratch and grown stronger. It has more opportunities to cooperate with countries co-building the “Belt and Road” and has also made this ancient maritime silk road The island where the road stops and supply stations take on a new look.
Recently, the Hainan Free Trade Port UAE Promotion Conference with the theme of “Sharing New Development and Talking about New Opportunities” was held in Dubai. About 200 people from all walks of life, including more than 100 key enterprises in the UAE, UAE trade promotion agencies, business associations and media, attended the meeting.
△Screenshot of the report from the UAE’s “Gulf Business” website
Over the past decade, the Belt and Road Initiative has become a popular global public good and international cooperation platform.
Currently, there are more than 3,000 “Belt and Road” cooperation projects, driving nearly a trillion US dollars in investment, creating “national landmarks”, “people’s livelihood projects” and “cooperation monuments” one after another, and injecting strong impetus into the development of the joint construction of the country.
△The “South China Morning Post” website reported: On October 2, Indonesian President Joko Joko (left) announced that the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway, has begun commercial operation. This is a key project under the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative. President Joko named the railway “Whoosh”, an Indonesian acronym for “Time Saving, Optimized Operations, Reliable System”.
The third “Belt and Road” International Cooperation Summit Forum will be held in Beijing this month.
Dr. Tong Yueting, a senior researcher at the Institute of East Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, expressed great expectations for this. She believes that this forum is an excellent platform for the countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative to enhance understanding and build on the past and open up the future. After ten years of hard work, the Belt and Road Initiative has found more efficient cooperation methods and models.
Tong Yueting hopes that the “Belt and Road” construction can continue to develop with high quality in the future. “Especially now, it is more important for countries to learn from each other, understand each other, and communicate with each other.”
[Editor in charge: Wu Jiang]
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2023-10-07 08:29:00
