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In such circumstances, what shall the human kind do? China’s proposal is to build a community of shared future for mankind and achieve shared and win-win development. President Xi Jinping of China pointed out that we should pass on the torch of peace from generation to generation, sustain development and make civilization flourish. All countries should jointly shape the future of the world, write international rules, manage global affairs and ensure that development outcomes are shared by all.
How to materialize that? I think one of the major actions is to promote the Belt and Road initiative. This Initiative goes beyond the boundaries of ideological values, so that countries along the initiative could enjoy a greater level of integration and cooperation.
Here, I would like to point out a very interesting phenomenon if you look into the world map. Economically developed regions of the world usually are coastal areas. Inland cities and countries are relatively lacking behind. Looking through the lens of history and reality, an important reason behind is that the vast majority of the world's trade are through the oceans. Farther distance to the sea means greater disadvantage to trade and connectivity.
The very aim of the Belt and Road initiative is to promote regional connectivity, shorten the gap between inner lands and coastal areas and let more countries and regions participate in the process of globalization and industrialization, so as to solve the problem of imbalance during the process of economic globalization. This conforms to the development needs of the regional countries and the trend of the times.
The Belt and Road initiative firmly grasps the key linkage of connectivity, opens up global distribution channels of production factors, contributing to a balanced, inclusive and shared benefits of economic globalization. This initiative focuses on policy communication, road connectivity, unimpeded trade, currency circulation and people-to-people bonds between countries. It promotes a higher degree of integration and interdependence, leads to the great goal of building a community of shared future for mankind.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
My fifth point is that China and Pakistan can play a major role in promoting the Belt and Road initiative as all-weather strategic cooperative partners.
The foreign minister of China Wang Yi once said that, if the Belt and Road initiative is the symphony benefiting many countries, the CPEC will be the first sweet chapter.
Among the countries along the Belt and Road initiative, CPEC is one of the earliest, fastest and most effective projects. Over the past three years, 19 early-harvest projects are under smooth construction with a total contract amount of 18.5 billion USD. With the completion of some of the major projects in 2017 and 2018, CPEC will step into the period of early-harvest. As the flagship of the Belt and Road initiative, CPEC has accumulated valuable experiences for China, Pakistan and even the countries of the region to promote the initiative.
Among these valuable experiences, the first is to adhere to the principle of scientific planning and top-level design.
China and Pakistan jointly established the “1+4” cooperative layout and opened all-dimensional cooperation. Both sides established JCC mechanism and have successfully held six meetings, identifying Gwadar port, energy, infrastructure transportation, industrial cooperation as the four key areas. At present, both sides are working for CPEC medium-to-long term planning to establish a higher level relationship of cooperation.
The second is to adhere to the basic principle of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation.
In such circumstances, what shall the human kind do? China’s proposal is to build a community of shared future for mankind and achieve shared and win-win development. President Xi Jinping of China pointed out that we should pass on the torch of peace from generation to generation, sustain development and make civilization flourish. All countries should jointly shape the future of the world, write international rules, manage global affairs and ensure that development outcomes are shared by all.
How to materialize that? I think one of the major actions is to promote the Belt and Road initiative. This Initiative goes beyond the boundaries of ideological values, so that countries along the initiative could enjoy a greater level of integration and cooperation.
Here, I would like to point out a very interesting phenomenon if you look into the world map. Economically developed regions of the world usually are coastal areas. Inland cities and countries are relatively lacking behind. Looking through the lens of history and reality, an important reason behind is that the vast majority of the world's trade are through the oceans. Farther distance to the sea means greater disadvantage to trade and connectivity.
The very aim of the Belt and Road initiative is to promote regional connectivity, shorten the gap between inner lands and coastal areas and let more countries and regions participate in the process of globalization and industrialization, so as to solve the problem of imbalance during the process of economic globalization. This conforms to the development needs of the regional countries and the trend of the times.
The Belt and Road initiative firmly grasps the key linkage of connectivity, opens up global distribution channels of production factors, contributing to a balanced, inclusive and shared benefits of economic globalization. This initiative focuses on policy communication, road connectivity, unimpeded trade, currency circulation and people-to-people bonds between countries. It promotes a higher degree of integration and interdependence, leads to the great goal of building a community of shared future for mankind.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
My fifth point is that China and Pakistan can play a major role in promoting the Belt and Road initiative as all-weather strategic cooperative partners.
The foreign minister of China Wang Yi once said that, if the Belt and Road initiative is the symphony benefiting many countries, the CPEC will be the first sweet chapter.
Among the countries along the Belt and Road initiative, CPEC is one of the earliest, fastest and most effective projects. Over the past three years, 19 early-harvest projects are under smooth construction with a total contract amount of 18.5 billion USD. With the completion of some of the major projects in 2017 and 2018, CPEC will step into the period of early-harvest. As the flagship of the Belt and Road initiative, CPEC has accumulated valuable experiences for China, Pakistan and even the countries of the region to promote the initiative.
Among these valuable experiences, the first is to adhere to the principle of scientific planning and top-level design.
China and Pakistan jointly established the “1+4” cooperative layout and opened all-dimensional cooperation. Both sides established JCC mechanism and have successfully held six meetings, identifying Gwadar port, energy, infrastructure transportation, industrial cooperation as the four key areas. At present, both sides are working for CPEC medium-to-long term planning to establish a higher level relationship of cooperation.
The second is to adhere to the basic principle of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation.
