Belt and Road Initiative: A Road of Innovation for the New Era.

The 3rd BRI Forum for International Cooperation will be commenced today in Beijing. 140 countries and 30 organizations are going to participate in it which vividly reflects the BRI's global importance in term of trans-regional connectivity, infrastructure development, socio-economic growth and last but not least, eradication of poverty and generation of new jobs.

Now the BRI has entered into its 2nd phase which hopefully will be focused on innovations, artificial intelligence technologies, ICT, big data management, quantum technologies, G-5-6, hybrid agriculture, green energies mainly wind, solar, blue/green hydrogen power generation, lithium batteries and last but not least, health services in all the member countries.

President Xi Jinping stressed that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is innovative by nature and its success needs to be powered by further innovation. Now the Chinese policy makers have already put the BRI on the path of openness, modernization, inclusiveness and qualitative industrialization transforming the economies and communities of more than 153 member countries.

In the last ten year the BRI has further consolidated the foundations of sustainable economic development in all the member countries. It remained positive, productive and participatory in term of making investment, sharing basic information, assisting in implementation and last but not least, sending experts for timely training to cope with disasters in their countries.

Precisely the BRI has been promoting the spirits of international cooperation, economic globalization, industrialization, innovations and last but not least, integrated trans-regional rails, ports and other transport means in all the member countries since 2013.

Belt and Road cooperation has pooled resources of innovation from various parties, banks and financial institutions injecting strong impetus into the development of partner countries and bringing tangible benefits to the people. A road of innovation for the new era is connecting China to the greater world.

This is a road that inspires innovative ideas for befitting mutual cooperation. Rooted in the spirit of harmony, inclusiveness, and cooperation of the ancient Silk Road, the BRI has put forward the innovative principle of extensive consultation and joint contribution for shared benefit, and abandoned the zero-sum mentality featured in the donors-dominated, Western-led model of international cooperation. Moreover, it has been...