High-quality co-construction of the "Belt and Road" has achieved remarkable results

　　Our newspaper reporter Gu Yang reported: During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the "Belt and Road" construction has achieved important progress and significant results.

　　Up to now, my country has signed 200 cooperation documents for jointly building the “Belt and Road” with 138 countries and 30 international organizations, and the interconnection structure of “six corridors, six roads, multiple countries and multiple ports” has basically taken shape.

　　The joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has achieved fruitful results, and China's investment and cooperation with countries along the "Belt and Road" has been steadily advancing——

　　In 2019, my country's total imports and exports to countries along the “Belt and Road” was 926.9 billion yuan, an increase of 10.8% over the previous year.

Among them, exports increased by 13.2%, imports increased by 7.9%, and two-way investment developed in depth.

Affected by the epidemic, in the first eight months of this year, my country’s foreign trade imports and exports with countries along the “Belt and Road” totaled 5.86 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.5%, accounting for 29.2% of my country’s total foreign trade imports and exports, an increase of 0.3 compared to the same period last year. Percentage points.

　　In 2019, my country’s non-financial direct investment in countries along the “Belt and Road” reached US$15 billion, accounting for 0.6% of total foreign investment; the “Belt and Road” countries’ direct investment in China was US$8.4 billion, year-on-year An increase of 30.6%.

In the first eight months of this year, Chinese enterprises invested US$11.8 billion in non-financial direct investment in 54 countries along the “Belt and Road”, a year-on-year increase of 31.5%, accounting for 17.2% of the total investment in the same period, an increase of 4.8 percentage points from the same period last year.

　　The joint construction of the “Belt and Road” has brought tangible development dividends to the international community.

Up to now, Chinese enterprises have invested a total of US$34 billion in overseas economic and trade cooperation zones built in countries along the “Belt and Road”, and paid more than US$3 billion in taxes and fees to the host country, creating 330,000 local jobs.