In recent years, a number of Chinese scholars have set out from Xi'an to explore the cultural relics of the ancient Silk Road, together with scholars from countries along the Belt and Road.
Ancient Chinese healing methods have been spreading along the Silk Road for over two millennia, but the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has further boosted the internationalization of the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
Investments from China have breathed new life into a Greek port that once hit development bottlenecks, making it a flagship project under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative.
Since its launch in 2021, the China-Laos Railway has helped Laos to convert itself from a landlocked country to a land-linked hub in the Indo-China Peninsula, benefiting both countries and beyond.
South China's economic hub Shenzhen has handled 516 China-Europe freight train trips since the service was launched in August 2020, carrying 361,100 tonnes of export goods with a value of 10.8 billion yuan (about 1.5 billion U.S. dollars), Shenzhen Customs said on Thursday.
Massive advances have occurred through jointly building the Belt and Road over the past decade, said a Chinese government official.
Braving the heatwaves, Behzod, an operator in a natural gas field, and his colleagues headed to their workstation in the vast Karakum Desert, situated in the central Asian country of Turkmenistan, renowned for boasting the world's fourth-largest natural gas reserves.
China's non-financial outbound direct investment (ODI) in countries along the Belt and Road route reached 95.34 billion yuan (US$13.09 billion) in the first seven months of this year, up 23.2% year on year. This accounted for 19% of China's total non-financial ODI in the same period, an official of the Ministry of Commerce said at a press conference Tuesday.
The Belt and Road Trade and Investment Promotion conference will take place during the sixth China-Arab States Expo, which will run from Sept. 21 to 24 in Yinchuan, the capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, said local authorities Tuesday.
Jinhua City in east China's Zhejiang Province has handled 2,500 China-Europe freight train trips since the service started in August 2017, local authorities said.
Statistics from China's Ministry of Commerce indicate that, up to now, China's cumulative investment in the South Asian region has reached nearly 15 billion U.S. dollars. Completed project contract turnover has exceeded 200 billion U.S. dollars.
Since its launch in December 2021, the 1,035 km rail line, which links the Lao capital Vientiane with Kunming, the capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, has generated benefits more than just at local levels.
"The China-Laos Railway is expected to serve as a bridge to connect China and Laos, and the grand gathering of the China-South Asia Expo will see more fruitful results," Muhammad Fazle Rabby from Bangladesh said.
The Finnish enterprise Nurminen Logistics had already recognized China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a significant opportunity for collaboration back in 2015 when it decided to participate in the initiative, said Olli Pohjanvirta, the company's chief executive officer.
Since its commercial operation in July 2018, the San Lorenzo Water Supply Project, located in Brazil's municipality of Vargem Grande Paulista, has provided a safe and reliable clean water supply for nearly 2 million residents in seven cities in the region.
Foreign envoys have said that the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is witnessing increasing economic and cultural exchanges with countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, and they expect more BRI cooperation, particularly with Xinjiang, to revive the centuries-old Silk Road.
Erenhot, the largest land port on the China-Mongolia border, registered surging import and export cargo volume in the first seven months this year, said local customs.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Thursday met with Singaporean Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan in Singapore, with the two sides pledging to keep promoting the Belt and Road construction.
A forum focusing on summarizing and enhancing the ecological, scientific, and technological cooperation between China and countries along the Silk Road Economic Belt will be held from Sept. 18 to 19 in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
North China's Shanxi Province has handled 700 China-Europe freight train trips since the service was launched in 2017, local authorities said.
Track-laying for a new high-speed train linking the China-Vietnam border commenced on Tuesday in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
A major China-Europe freight train route linking Yiwu, known as "the world's supermarket" in east China's Zhejiang Province, and Europe's largest small-commodity distribution center in Madrid, Spain, has steadily developed since its launch.
With the regular flights of Cargolux and the convenient customs clearance at the Zhengzhou airport, it takes only three days to transport goods from China to European countries, which fully meets the needs of cross-border e-commerce.
Since it was put into operation six years ago, the Mombasa-Nairobi SGR has accelerated the localization of its workforce, hiring a robust cadre of young professionals to work in key sections like locomotives, track, signal and management.
The number of China-Europe freight trains passing Horgos Port in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region since 2016 has exceeded 30,000, local authorities said Thursday.
A China-Europe freight train transporting photovoltaic components to Uzbekistan was inaugurated on Thursday in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
On the Nam Tha River in Laos' northern Bokeo province, the Nam Tha 1 hydropower plant is expected to see its annual generation to reach 720 GWh while providing green power to more than 2 million people in the border regions of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos as well as helping spur economic development in the remote hilly regions.
The coastal city of Xiamen in east China's Fujian Province had handled over 100,000 TEUs of goods by China-Europe freight trains as of Wednesday, local authorities said.
As a cargo train loaded with iron ore arrived in Erenhot, the largest land port on the China-Mongolia border, on Wednesday, the tally of import and export cargo throughput of Erenhot's railway port broke the 10-million-tonne mark.
Strengthening cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative has promoted pragmatic cooperation between China and Italy and serves the interests of people from both sides, experts and diplomats said, as Italy reportedly weighs up whether to continue such cooperation.