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ADVANCING THE BRI

partnerships with other countries participating in the BRI, facilitate greater
trade and investment with them, and build a Belt and Road free trade
network. These efforts are designed to promote growth, both regionally
and globally. During this forum, China will sign economic and trade
cooperation agreements with over 30 countries and hold discussions on
free trade agreements with relevant countries. It will also host the China
International Import Expo starting from 2018.
China will enhance cooperation on innovation with other countries.
We will launch the Belt and Road Science, Technology, and Innovation
Cooperation Action Plan which includes four initiatives on science and
tech personnel exchanges, joint laboratories, cooperation on science
parks, and technology transfers. In the coming five years, we will offer
2,500 short-term research visits to China for young foreign scientists,
train 5,000 foreign scientists, engineers, and managers, and inaugurate 50
joint laboratories. We will set up a big data service platform on ecological
and environmental protection. Further, we propose the establishment of
an international coalition for green development on the Belt and Road,
and we will provide support to relevant countries in adapting to climate
change.
Over the coming three years, China will provide assistance worth
RMB 60 billion to developing countries and international organizations
participating in the BRI to launch more people’s wellbeing projects. We
will provide emergency food aid worth RMB 2 billion to developing
countries along the Belt and Road and make an additional contribution
of US$1 billion to the Assistance Fund for South-South Cooperation.
China will launch 100 “happy home” projects, 100 poverty alleviation
projects, and 100 health care and rehabilitation projects in BRI participant
countries. China will provide relevant international organizations with
US$1 billion for the implementation of cooperation projects that will
benefit participant countries.
China will establish the following mechanisms to boost Belt and
Road cooperation: a liaison office for the Forum’s follow-up activities,
the Research Center for the Belt and Road Financial and Economic
Development, the Facilitating Center for Building the Belt and Road, the
Multilateral Development Financial Cooperation Center which will be
established in cooperation with multilateral development banks, and an

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