With the Belt and Road Initiative, China's provinces have accelerated their efforts to connect with other parts of the world. They have cooperated with regional governments in Europe, offering timely help to strengthen private-public partnership in order to build industrial parks, business hubs or cultural centers.
The Belt and Road Initiative will provide an important engine for global growth and bring benefits to Southeast Asian countries, said former Thai PM Abhisit Vejjajiva.
With increasing international challenges, including fragmentation in free trade arrangements, China has always been vigrously promoting a regional free trade pact in the Asia-Pacific that is open, inclusive and beneficial to all.
Experts in Malaysia hope that the upcoming APEC summit could push for greater economic ties and expect China to take the lead.
Further tangible initiatives highlighting the continued internationalization of the Chinese economy abound, but perhaps one of the most significant was launched only a few weeks ago: the establishment of a payment-versus-payment, or PVP, system for Chinese yuan and Russian rouble trade transactions.
Cambodian Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said on Wednesday that China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will greatly contribute to the development of tourism for all participating countries.
The regions along B&R are full of development opportunities, and China's telecom operators have unique advantages to explore the markets, Stephen Ho has said.
China's Belt and Road Initiative will greatly benefit the ASEAN, especially in infrastructure development, officials and academics said at a symposium.
The B&R Initiative is of great importance not only to countries along the ancient Silk Road trade routes but also to the whole world, said Palestinian President.
The China-proposed B&R Initiative is "positive" for Asian countries, said visiting Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Washington on Wednesday.