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ON BUILDING A HUMAN COMMUNITY WITH A SHARED FUTURE

had such a fervent desire for a better life, and never have we had so many
means at our disposal to overcome our difficulties.
From the standpoint of present reality, we find ourselves in a world
fraught with challenges. Global growth is in need of new drivers,
development needs to be made more inclusive and balanced, and the
gap between rich and poor needs to be cut. Hotspots in some regions
are causing instability and terrorism is rampant. Deficits in peace,
development, and governance pose daunting challenges to mankind.
These issues are lingering in my mind.
In the autumn of 2013, respectively in Kazakhstan and Indonesia,
I proposed the building of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-
Century Maritime Silk Road, which collectively comprise the BRI. As a
Chinese saying goes, “The peache and the plum do not speak, yet a path
is beneath them.” Four years on, over 100 countries and international
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organizations have supported and gotten involved in this Initiative. It
has been included in important resolutions passed by the UN General
Assembly and Security Council. Thanks to our efforts, the vision of the
BRI is becoming a reality and bearing rich fruits.
These past four years have seen deeper policy connectivity. I
have said on many occasions that the BRI is not meant to reinvent the
wheel. Rather, it aims to complement the development strategies of the
countries involved by leveraging their comparative strengths. We have
enhanced the BRI’s coordination with the policy initiatives of relevant
countries, including the Eurasian Economic Union put forward by
Russia, the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity, Kazakhstan’s Bright
Road, Turkey’s Middle Corridor, Mongolia’s Development Road, Viet Nam’s
Two Corridors, One Economic Circle, the UK’s Northern Powerhouse,
and Poland’s Amber Road. We are also promoting complementarity
between China’s development plan and those of Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar,
and Hungary, among other countries. China has signed cooperation
agreements with over 40 countries and international organizations
and carried out framework cooperation on production capacity with
more than 30 countries. During the forum, a number of cooperation
agreements on policy connectivity and action plans will be signed. We will
also launch a Belt and Road cooperation initiative on trade connectivity
together with some 60 countries and international organizations. Such

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