(East-West Question) Wang Hongli: How does the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt present an open and win-win situation to the world?
China News Agency, Urumqi, January 14th: How can the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt present an open and win-win situation to the world?
Written by Wang Hongli, Deputy Director of the Institute of Economics, Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences
The Belt and Road Initiative has gone through nearly 9 years.
In the past 9 years, the "Belt and Road" initiative has been developing continuously in cooperation, and its concept has attracted the attention, response, recognition and active participation of more and more countries and international organizations.
The infrastructure connectivity of countries along the “Belt and Road” has been continuously deepened, the level of international connectivity has continued to improve, and a large number of cooperation projects have taken root, demonstrating China’s in-depth integration with the world in an open and win-win attitude.
The Belt and Road Initiative spans the Eurasian continent.
Based on its unique geographical advantages and years of economic and social development achievements, Xinjiang hopes to obtain better and faster development opportunities, and thus accelerates the construction of the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt.
The construction of the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt with policy communication, facility connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial integration and people-to-people bond as the main content has achieved remarkable results.
The achievements of its construction benefit the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang and are well received by the people of neighboring countries.
"Big Channel" Improves the Level of Convenience
Up to now, 172 countries and international organizations have signed more than 200 cooperation documents on the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" with China, and promoted the establishment of more than 90 bilateral cooperation mechanisms.
Among them, promoting infrastructure interconnection is conducive to improving the quality and efficiency of foreign investment and cooperation.
Taking the solution of "connectivity" and "connectivity" as the guide, facility connectivity is crucial.
At present, the epidemic has severely hindered the transportation capacity of traditional transportation channels such as aviation and shipping. At the same time, the European market has an urgent demand for commodities such as medical products, anti-epidemic materials, retail products and electronic products, which has led to the rapid recovery of China-Europe freight trains and rapid growth.
The smooth and convenient China-Europe trains provide a solid guarantee for China and the countries along the Silk Road Economic Belt to improve the level of connectivity.
Flour and oil from Kazakhstan, lobster and grouper from Gwadar Port in Pakistan, red wine from Georgia, chocolate, candy and biscuits from Uzbekistan, juice from Azerbaijan, coffee from Malaysia...Commodities, common and unusual, come into Xinjiang Ordinary people's homes; Xinjiang's traditional delicacies, naan, fruits and vegetables, clothing, shoes and hats, and electronic products have also gone abroad through the Silk Road Economic Belt and entered the homes of ordinary people in countries along the route.
With the support of air, railway, highway, pipeline transportation and other transportation networks, Xinjiang has formed three major channels in the north, middle and south, realizing the interconnection between the three major regions of China's east, middle and west and neighboring countries via Xinjiang.
The level of infrastructure construction in Xinjiang and the convenience of customs clearance at ports are important guarantees for a smooth Silk Road Economic Belt.
On December 4, 2021, the China-Europe freight train "Tianma" from Wuwei South in Gansu to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, launched the first international freight train for cross-border sea-rail intermodal transport.
The train leaves the country via Khorgos, passes through the Aktau port in Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, and the Baku port in Azerbaijan, and finally arrives in Tbilisi.
Photo by Wang Xidong issued by China News Agency
On the construction of international transport corridors, China is negotiating with Pakistan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan on the construction of three cross-border railways to speed up the construction of cross-border railways.
At present, Xinjiang has carried out bilateral cooperation in international road transport with five countries, namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan and Mongolia, and has opened 107 international road transport lines with neighboring countries.
On December 2, 2011, the docking ceremony of the second cross-border railway between China and Kazakhstan was held at Horgos Port in Xinjiang. .
China News Agency reporter Liu Xinshe
The achievements of the "Belt and Road" construction benefit the people
The "Belt and Road" has improved the ability and level of China's joint development with the world, providing developing countries with development opportunities, and the results of its construction will benefit the world.
China's "One Belt, One Road" initiative has many points of convergence with Kazakhstan's "Bright Road" plan.
The "Belt and Road" construction has expanded business opportunities for Chinese enterprises and improved the business environment. At the same time, it has also made tangible contributions to the infrastructure construction and improvement of people's living standards in the countries along the route.
In June last year, China Yutong Corporation and Kazakh Technology Corporation established a joint venture factory to produce pure electric buses and environmentally friendly buses that meet Euro V emission standards.
In Nur-Sultan, the capital of Kazakhstan, citizens traveled on pure electric buses.
In the field of economic cooperation, neighboring countries have a more positive attitude towards the development of China's Silk Road Economic Belt, and their cooperation is more pragmatic.
In particular, the overseas economic and trade cooperation zone has attracted the attention and expectation of the host country.
For example, Hualing International Special Economic Zone and Hualing Free Industrial Park have attracted a total of 218 enterprises in the zone, created 320 jobs in the host country, and handed over a total of nearly 80 million yuan (RMB, the same below) in tax revenue to the host country.
Kyrgyzstan is one of the first countries to support and actively participate in the construction of the "Belt and Road".
Over the years, the cooperation between the two countries has yielded fruitful results.
For example, with the help of Chinese experts, the Bishkek-Naren-Turgat and Bishkek-Osh roads have been built.
In the field of culture and education, the cooperation between the two countries has injected a strong impetus to promote mutual interests.
More than 4,000 Kyrgyz students are studying in Chinese universities, and the younger generation of Kyrgyzstan is increasingly interested in China.
On November 5, 2019, "Hainan Normal University 2019 International Cultural Festival" was held in Haikou, and Kyrgyzstan students prepared special food for this.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Luo Yunfei
After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, China delivered "Chinese power" to the global war "epidemic", demonstrating the responsibility of a major country.
Xinjiang organized three medical teams from other countries to go to Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to support the local fight against the epidemic, and to overcome the actual difficulties of its own financial constraints, raised more than 10 million yuan to purchase 19,600 medical N95 masks, 199,200 disposable medical masks, 9,000 medical protective suits, 14 ventilators, 5 defibrillation monitors, 10,000 nucleic acid detection reagents and other anti-epidemic materials were donated.
On March 19, 2021, the new crown vaccine assisted by the Chinese government to the Kyrgyz government arrived in Bishkek.
Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Du Dewen (first from left) and Kyrgyzstan's First Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development Soltonbekova jointly signed the vaccine handover certificate.
Photo courtesy of the Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan issued by China News Agency
Welcome to a new era of development
At present, China proposes to build a new development pattern in which the domestic cycle is the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles promote each other. The first layer of its development connotation is to build a higher level of opening to the outside world; the second layer of the concept is to pay more attention to the construction of the domestic cycle. The third essence is the mutual promotion of domestic and international dual circulation.
China has a long-term plan, and has positioned itself in a series of major development layouts such as the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development of the Western Region and Forming a New Pattern in the New Era", "Overall Plan for the New Western Land-Sea Corridor", and "Outline of the National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network Planning" to promote China's formation and deepening of land and sea. The new spatial pattern of two-way opening clearly proposes to build a "convenient, smooth, cost-effective, green and intensive, intelligent, advanced, safe and reliable modernized and high-quality national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network", and realize the "National 123 Travel Traffic Circle" and "Global 123 Express Delivery". "Logistics Circle", deploying the high-level opening of transportation, the construction of cross-regional comprehensive transportation channels, the integrated development of comprehensive transportation hubs, and the integrated development of transportation and tourism industries.
This makes Xinjiang's geographical role increasingly prominent in China's new dual-circulation pattern, and will usher in a new era of rapid development of "facilities connectivity".
At the same time, the future of the national transportation service network, information network, energy network, industrial layout integration and regional coordinated development supported by the transportation infrastructure network will bring more development opportunities for the construction of the core area of the Xinjiang Silk Road Economic Belt.
The concept of "co-consulting, co-construction and sharing" has continuously won the support and participation of more and more countries, regions and international organizations with facts.
A peaceful, harmonious and stable social situation has taken shape in Xinjiang.
The construction of the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt will usher in a new period of development, and the development results will promote the prosperity and development of Xinjiang and neighboring countries, and benefit the lives of the people.
"Look at the spot and know the whole leopard".
Xinjiang's achievements in building the core area of China's Silk Road Economic Belt demonstrate that the "Belt and Road" initiative, with its open and win-win attitude, has continuously enriched its connotations, demonstrated its creativity, and developed into the most extensive and largest international cooperation platform and the most Popular international public goods.
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About the Author:
Wang Hongli, female, deputy director and associate researcher of the Economic Research Institute of Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences, master tutor.
Mainly engaged in scientific research in the fields of regional economics and government performance evaluation.
He presided over and completed 1 national social science fund project and 11 horizontally entrusted projects; participated in the completion of 8 national social science and self-science projects, and 46 provincial and ministerial-level and horizontally entrusted projects.
He has published 1 monograph, edited 3 books, participated in the writing of 20 books, and published 36 papers in academic journals.