China News Agency, Beijing, March 7 (Zheng Jiawei and Wang Tao) 2023 is the tenth anniversary of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative.
Over the past ten years, relying on the joint construction of the "Belt and Road", China has continuously opened up new paths in international cooperation and provided new opportunities for the development of the world economy.
Against the backdrop of still bleak global development prospects, the outside world is eagerly paying attention to how China will draw a "meticulous painting" of high-quality development for the next decade of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road".
Working together to promote institutional opening
Many experts and scholars pointed out that strengthening the standard docking with the co-construction countries and jointly promoting institutional opening are the top priorities for high-quality co-construction of the "Belt and Road".
It is necessary to further eliminate barriers for smooth trade and project implementation along the "Belt and Road" through institutional opening-up.
Data map: Gansu's first international freight train on the China-Laos Railway (Dunhuang-Vientiane-Bangkok) in the Western Land-Sea New Corridor was dispatched in Dunhuang.
Photo by Zhang Xiaoliang issued by China News Agency
In recent years, China has been continuously reforming systems and optimizing rules in various fields, in line with the joint construction of the country, and establishing a policy coordination and docking mechanism between different institutional platforms.
At present, China has signed agreements with more than 30 co-construction countries and regions on the mutual recognition of "certified operators". advance.
Yu Miaojie, deputy to the National People's Congress and president of Liaoning University, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency that in the future, the joint promotion of institutional opening cannot simply apply the current international trade, financial and other mechanisms, but should work hand in hand with the co-construction countries and more actively participate in world economic development issues , strive to promote the reform of unfair and unreasonable systems and mechanisms in the field of international trade and finance, actively promote the optimization of the global economic governance system, and effectively increase the representation and voice of emerging economies and developing countries.
Gather more development consensus
Wang Chenxing, an associate researcher at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told reporters that many factors such as geopolitical conflicts, trade protectionism, natural disasters and climate change in the world are superimposed on each other, and more specific requirements are put forward for the joint construction of the "Belt and Road". China needs to gather more consensus on development, and talk about the "heart-to-heart" and "personal words" of the "Belt and Road" co-construction countries to seek growth and development.
Wang Chenxing pointed out that the construction of the "Belt and Road" is not only a road to economic prosperity. In addition to continuing to provide public goods that can help developing countries achieve steady economic growth and long-term social stability, China will also focus on improving the digitalization and greenness of public goods. Consistency with health, build a consensus with products, and jointly build a high-quality, sustainable development of the "Belt and Road".
"Looking forward to the next ten years, the joint construction of the 'Belt and Road' should better implement the global development initiative, fully cater for the various needs of the co-construction countries, less about 'my development' and 'their development', and more 'our development' development of'".
Wang Chenxing said.
Continue to strengthen people-to-people bonds
People-to-people bond is not only the measure and starting point of the "Belt and Road" construction, but also provides the social foundation and public opinion guarantee for extensive consultation and joint construction.
Hu Sishe, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former vice president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, said that the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" must continue to strengthen people-to-people bonds.
In Hu Sishe's view, the key to continuously strengthening people-to-people bonds is to play the "cultural card".
For example, he said that 2016 is the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu. China and the UK jointly held activities to commemorate the two literary giants. Shakespeare’s hometown and Tang Xianzu’s hometown became sister cities. Loved has become a model of cultural exchanges between the two countries.
Hu Sishe suggested that in the future, China will build more stages for people-to-people and cultural exchanges with countries along the “Belt and Road” and build more cultural brand projects, so that people-to-people bonds will continue to “recharge”.
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