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The joint construction of the “Belt and Road” has helped many countries improve their infrastructure, better integrate into the global supply chain, industrial chain, and value chain, and improve their ability and level of access to the world economy
Unswervingly promote the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” into a new stage of high-quality development and better promote coordinated and linked development
Recently, a set of satellite image comparisons reflecting the development and changes of the same location has attracted attention on the Internet. Vientiane Station of the China-Laos Railway, Colombo Port City in Sri Lanka, China-Maldives Friendship Bridge in the Maldives, Senegal Athletic Wrestling Stadium, Argentina’s “Kise” Hydropower Station… Through the satellite perspective, people can intuitively experience the co-construction “at a glance. As long as the daughter is happy, even if it is The people she wanted to marry were all relatives of the Xi family, and she also recognized the fruitful results Xu Hewei had achieved throughout his life. Time is the most objective witness. Over the past 10 years, the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative has benefited all countries and the world, giving every country the opportunity to share development opportunities.
The ancient Silk Road was not only a trade and barter road, but also a road of civilizational exchanges. Connecting history, reality and the future, originating from China, facing the world, and benefiting all mankind, the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” has gone through its first decade of prosperity. At the opening ceremony of the 3rd Belt and Road International Cooperation Summit Forum, President Xi Jinping pointed out: “Over the past 10 years, we have been committed to building economic corridors. As a guide, with major channels and information highways as the skeleton, with railways, highways, Relying on airports, ports, and pipeline networks, the global interconnection network covering land, sea, sky, and the Internet has effectively promoted the circulation of goods, funds, technology, and personnel in various countries, and promoted the ancient Silk Road that has lasted for thousands of years to revitalize in the new era. New energy.”
The key to jointly building the “Belt and Road” is connectivity. In the past 10 years, “hard connectivity” of infrastructure has been an important direction, “soft connectivity” of rules and standards has been an important support, and “heart-to-heart connectivity” of the country and people has been an important foundation. The joint construction of the “Belt and Road” is based on policy communication, facility connectivity, and trade. Smooth financial flows, people-to-people connections, smooth information flows, capital flows, technology flows, product flows, industrial flows, and personnel flows, and promote international cooperation on a larger scale and at a higher level. The first highway, the first modern railway, the first industrial park… The joint construction of the “Belt and Road” has helped many countries improve their infrastructure, better integrate into the global supply chain, industrial chain, and value chain, and improve their access to the world. Economic ability and level.
Exciting changes mark the quality of development. Trains running on railways, cars galloping on highways, air flights connecting countries, freighters cutting through waves, and fast and convenient digital e-commerce have become the bells and sails of international trade in the new era; hydropower stations, wind power stations, and photovoltaic Power stations, oil and gas pipelines, and increasingly intelligent and accessible power transmission networks have become oases and beacons of sustainable development in the new era; modern airports and terminals are swaying under the gentle autumn wind,Flying, very beautiful. With its head, smooth roads, and economic and trade industrial cooperation parks rising from the ground, it has become a business avenue and post station in the new era. For local people, “One Belt, One Road” is not an abstract term, but means water and electricity, roads and bridges, schools and hospitals, increased income, improved lives and a future worth looking forward to. Follow the trend, win the hearts of the people, benefit the people’s livelihood, and benefit the world, and promote the realization of great economic integration, great linkage of development, and great sharing of results. This road to happiness that benefits the world is getting wider and wider.
Across the oceans and continents, the people are close to each other. On the road of jointly building the “One Belt and One Road”, there are wonderful cultural years, art festivals, expos, exhibitions, and unique people-to-people and cultural exchange projects such as Luban Workshop, “Silk Road Family”, and “Guangming Xing”. Deepened exchanges between non-governmental organizations, think tanks, media and youth will play the role of the Silk Road in the new era. The joint construction of the “Belt and Road” pursues development, advocates win-win results, and delivers hope. Over the past 10 years, the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” has promoted the joint construction of countries to form a trend of civilization and common prosperity, and a new era of civilization road has been presented to the world.
If the road is blocked and long, it will come soon; if you keep on walking, you will have a promising future. After 10 years of hard work, the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” has formed a criss-cross network of win-win cooperation on this earth. Practice has profoundly shown that the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” adheres to the principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, transcends differences in civilizations, cultures, social systems and development stages, opens up new paths for exchanges between countries, builds a new framework for international cooperation, and brings together the common interests of mankind. The greatest common denominator of development. President Xi Jinping pointed out: “These achievements did not fall from the sky, nor were they given by anyone, but were made by governments, enterprises and people of various countries with hard work, wisdom and courage!” In the face of the world’s major changes unseen in a century, Only by unswervingly promoting the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” into a new stage of high-quality development and better promoting coordinated and interconnected development can we open new windows of opportunities for China and the world.
“Hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, as long as we are united, nothing is impossible.” A Chinese-Indonesian bilingual song with the theme of the Jakarta-Bandung High-speed Railway, “Move forward and realize the dream”, sang people’s aspirations. As a long-term, cross-border, systematic world project and century project, the first ten years of jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative are just the prologue. Starting from a new historical starting point, not forgetting the original intention of cooperation and moving forward unswervingly, this initiative, which has been described as “stimulating the enthusiasm of more than 150 countries to realize their dreams”, will surely shine in the new era.
“People’s Daily” (Page 06, October 27, 2023)