Xi Jinping: China will continue to promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, maintain smooth and stable global industrial and supply chains, and promote high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road".

　　This passage is from President Xi Jinping's special speech at the World Economic Forum's "Davos Agenda" dialogue on January 25, 2021.

　　In recent years, a century of changes and a century of epidemics have intertwined and superimposed, protectionism and unilateralism have continued to escalate, economic globalization has encountered headwinds, and the world economy is facing the risk of recession. However, openness and economic globalization are still the historical law and inevitable trend of human development.

　　In 2013, President Xi Jinping proposed the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative.

Over the past nine years, the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has been deepened step by step.

Driven by the goal of high standards, sustainability, and benefiting the people's livelihood, we regard the "hard connectivity" of infrastructure as an important direction, the "soft connectivity" of rules and standards as an important support, and the "heart connectivity" of the people who jointly build a country as an important It has opened up a new world for China's opening up and development, provided new opportunities for the joint construction of the country's economic and social development, and made new contributions to the recovery of the global economy.

　　With the continuous consolidation and expansion of the scope of cooperation in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the continuous expansion of the international market, China has signed more than 200 cooperation documents with 149 countries and 32 international organizations, and signed certified documents with 32 countries and regions. The agreement on mutual recognition of business operators (AEOs), the deepening of the docking of strategic planning, and the continuous improvement of the level of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation.

As of the end of August this year, the cumulative volume of trade in goods between my country and countries along the route was about 12 trillion U.S. dollars, and non-financial direct investment in countries along the route exceeded 140 billion U.S. dollars.

The China-Laos Railway was successfully opened to traffic, and Laos changed from a "land-locked country" to a "land-linked country"; China and Saudi Arabia successfully signed the Red Sea New City energy storage project, helping Saudi Arabia to promote the "2030 Vision" and "National Transformation Plan".

China has been deeply integrated with the world economy and the international system, and industries around the world are closely related and interdependent. The joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has not only made important contributions to stabilizing the global supply chain, but also provided market support and investment opportunities for global economic recovery.

　　On the new journey, we must correctly understand and grasp the new situation of jointly building the "Belt and Road", unswervingly expand high-level opening up, continue to actively create a market-oriented, legalized, and internationalized business environment, and accelerate the construction of an open economy and new system.

We must lay a solid foundation for high-quality development, promote the translation of policy communication into concrete actions, improve the "four-in-one" interconnection layout of land, sea, sky, and network, steadily expand and promote cooperation in new infrastructure projects, and focus on cultivating artificial intelligence. , big data, digital finance, e-commerce, green energy and other new growth points, and promote better and faster cooperation and development in the field of people's livelihood.

At the same time, comprehensively strengthen risk prevention and control, strengthen overall coordination, and lead the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road" with China's new development opportunities and providing more public goods for the international community.

　　Special expert of this issue: Liu Qian, Beijing Normal University Belt and Road College