BEIJING: As the just-concluded third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation has charted a course toward greener and more sustainable development, the decade-old initiative is set to continue transforming the world’s development landscape. Green development and sustainability were among the hot topics at the two-day event, attended by representatives of 151 countries and 41 international organizations. A wide consensus …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe in Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is in Beijing for the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 20, 2023. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing) Chinese President …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong in Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong, who is in Beijing for the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 20, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhai Jianlan) Chinese President …

PORT OF SPAIN: The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) plays an important role in enhancing the flow of trade and economic development, said Paula Gopee-Scoon, trade and industry minister of Trinidad and Tobago. “The initiative is a significant project from the point of view of both countries. For China, it represents investments into another country, and for us, that assistance …

BEIJING: Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, met with Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee and Lao president, in Beijing on Friday. The two leaders inked a 2024-2028 action plan between the CPC and the LPRP on building a China-Laos community with a …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong, who is in Beijing for the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. Noting that China and Vietnam have developed a deep friendship of “camaraderie and brotherhood,” Xi said the two countries are both advancing their own socialist modernization cause, both regard the bilateral relationship …

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s foreign ministry said in a press statement on Thursday that China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has provided numerous benefits to developing countries. The statement was issued at the end of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet’s trip to Beijing, capital of China, for the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, which was held in conjunction …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is in Beijing for the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. Noting that Sri Lanka was one of the first countries to join the Belt and Road Initiative, Xi said China stands ready to work with Sri Lanka to jointly promote high-quality Belt …

BEIJING: Eight foreign leaders and president of the New Development Bank (NDB) held bilateral meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday after attending the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, which concluded on Wednesday. They lauded the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and China’s constructive role in international affairs, among others. Prime Minister of Egypt Mostafa Madbouly …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday met with Prime Minister of Pakistan Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar, who is in Beijing for the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. Xi said that China and Pakistan are all-weather strategic cooperative partners and ironclad friends, noting that successive Pakistani governments have actively supported and participated in the Belt and Road cooperation. Over …

BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday met with Jean-Pierre Raffarin, special representative of French President Emmanuel Macron and former French prime minister, in Beijing. Facing an international landscape marked by change and disorder, China and France, both independent major countries, have the ability and responsibility to jointly promote international solidarity and cooperation, said Wang, also a member of …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday said China will work with Pakistan, which he said is an “iron-clad friend,” to make new contributions to safeguarding peace and stability and promoting prosperity in the region and the world. Over the past decade, the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has yielded fruitful results and vigorously promoted Pakistan’s economic and social …

ISLAMABAD: Executive Director, Center for South Asia and International Studies (CSAIS) Islamabad, Dr Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan on Thursday said the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) had helped build an enabling economic environment in Pakistan as energy, education and the economy being among its key pillars. China had invested US$25.4 billion in direct projects in Pakistan, creating 236,000 jobs, generating …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday met with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, who is in Beijing to attend the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. China and Cambodia have set a good example of relations between countries of different sizes based on equality and mutual benefit since they established diplomatic ties 65 years ago, Xi said, …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday met with Prime Minister of Egypt Mostafa Madbouly, who is in Beijing for the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF). Over the past decade, China and Egypt have conducted fruitful cooperation within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative, Xi said, calling on the two sides to jointly follow …

JINAN: A traditional Chinese medicine hospital of the Xihai’an (West Coast) New Area in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province, in cooperation with the College of International Exchange of the Shandong University of Science and Technology, invited international students from Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) partner countries to experience the charm of traditional Chinese medicine culture here on Wednesday. A Turkmen …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday said China stands ready to advance the synergy of the Belt and Road Initiative with Cambodia’s Pentagon Strategy and let China’s development bring more dividends to Cambodian people. This year marks the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Cambodia as well as the China-Cambodia Friendship Year, Xi said …

BEIJING: Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Wednesday held talks with Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, who is in Beijing for the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation and paying an official visit to the country. Li said China stands ready to work with Thailand to adhere to good-neighborliness and friendship and firmly support each other on issues concerning …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday met with United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who is in Beijing for the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is in Beijing for the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF). Xi said Putin has attended the BRF three times in a row, demonstrating Russia’s support for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Lauding Russia as an important partner as China pursues …

BEIJING: Senior Chinese official Li Xi on Wednesday met with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar, who is in Beijing for the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. China is willing to work with Pakistan to advance the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and speed up the building of an even closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future …

BEIJING: Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Wednesday met with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar, who is in Beijing for the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. Noting that China and Pakistan are ironclad brothers, Li said China is willing to work with Pakistan to further implement the important consensus reached by the two countries’ leaders, enhance high-level exchanges …

BEIJING: A report released by the Xinhua Institute on Wednesday argues that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has given rise to a genre of more inclusive and effective development science — the Belt and Road Development Studies. The report, titled “The Belt and Road Development Studies — A Synergy Approach to Global Development,” was released at a thematic forum …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday delivered a keynote speech at the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. The following is the full text of the speech: Building an Open, Inclusive and Interconnected World For Common Development Keynote Speech by H.E. Xi Jinping President of the People’s Republic of China At the Opening Ceremony of the Third …

BEIJING: Belt and Road cooperation was proposed by China, but its benefits and opportunities are for the world to share, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday.

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday elaborated on experience drawn from Belt and Road cooperation achievements over the past decade in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. First, “we have learned that humankind is a community with a shared future,” Xi said. “China can only do well when …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday said this year marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) he proposed, noting that the BRI aims to enhance policy, infrastructure, trade, financial and people-to-people connectivity, inject new impetus into the global economy, create new opportunities for global development, and build a new platform for international economic cooperation.

BEIJING: China will work with all parties involved to usher Belt and Road cooperation into a new stage of high-quality development, and make relentless efforts to achieve modernization for all countries, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Wednesday. Global modernization should be pursued to enhance peaceful development and mutually beneficial cooperation and bring prosperity to all, Xi said. Xi noted that …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday attended the opening ceremony of the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation and delivered a keynote speech. Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the opening ceremony of the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation and delivers a keynote speech at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of …

BEIJING: The achievements of Belt and Road cooperation are neither a windfall nor made with others’ alms-giving and charity, but are earned by governments, enterprises and the people of participating countries with their diligence, wisdom and courage, Chinese President Xi Jinping said here on Tuesday. Xi made the remarks at a welcome banquet for guests attending the third Belt and …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been highly appreciating and supporting the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and is willing to learn from China’s development experience, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister, said in a recent interview with Chinese media here. Kakar, who was invited to attend the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Chilean President Gabriel Boric on Tuesday in Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping holds a welcoming ceremony for Chilean President Gabriel Boric in the Northern Hall of the Great Hall of the People prior to their talks in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 17, 2023. Gabriel Boric is in Beijing to attend the …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday in Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 17, 2023. Abiy Ahmed is in Beijing to attend the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation and pay …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday in Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 17, 2023. Viktor Orban is in Beijing to attend the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. (Xinhua/Rao Aimin) …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Tuesday in Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 17, 2023. Tokayev is in Beijing to attend the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei) Chinese President Xi …

HAIKOU: Over the past decade, south China’s Hainan Province has seen its trade with Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) partner countries grow from 57.4 billion yuan (about 8 billion U.S. dollars) in 2013 to 94.4 billion yuan in 2022, with average annual growth of 5.7 percent, said Haikou Customs. In the first three quarters of 2023, the province’s foreign trade …

BEIJING: A book of President Xi Jinping’s discourses on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been published in Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Japanese. The launch ceremony of the multiple language editions was on Monday hosted by the State Council Information Office and the China International Communications Group and joined by more than 100 attendees, including envoys from BRI …

VIENNA: The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as “a massive project” with “immense potential,” can help accelerate efforts to achieve the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Ghada Waly, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), said in a recent interview with Xinhua. Waly is going to attend the third Belt and Road Forum …

BEIJING: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar arrived in Beijing on Monday to attend the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.

BEIJING: When Pablo Cordova was trapped beneath debris in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Ecuador, he did not expect that a phone call and some assistance from the other side of the globe would save his life. Cordova was a member of staff at a hotel in Portoviejo, in Ecuador’s coastal province of Manabi, one of the areas hit hardest …