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ON BUILDING A HUMAN COMMUNITY WITH A SHARED FUTURE

connectivity in the three areas of policy, rules, and standards so as to
provide institutional safeguards for our efforts to enhance connectivity.
Third, we should build the Belt and Road into a road of greater
openness. Openness brings progress while isolation leaves one behind.
For a country, opening up is like the butterfly’s struggle to break the shell.
There will be short-term pains, but such pains will give way to new life.
The BRI should be an initiative that is open and ensures both economic
growth and balanced development. We must build an open platform of
cooperation that will help to protect and grow an open world economy.
We should create together an environment that will facilitate opening
up and development, establish a fair, rational, and transparent system
of international trade and investment rules, and promote the orderly
flow of production factors, efficient resource allocation, and full market
integration. We welcome the efforts of other countries to develop
open economies based on their own realities and to participate in
global governance and provide public goods. With these efforts, we can
together build a broad community of shared interests.
Trade is an important engine driving growth. We should adopt a
mindset of embracing the outside world, uphold the multilateral trading
regime, advance the building of free trade areas, and promote the
liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment. Of course, we
should also focus on resolving issues such as imbalances in development,
difficulties in governance, the digital divide, and income disparity so that
economic globalization is more open, inclusive, balanced, and beneficial
to all.
Fourth, we should build the Belt and Road into a road of innovation.
Innovation is an important force powering development. The BRI is
itself a pioneering undertaking and we need to encourage innovation
to keep it moving forward. We should promote innovation-driven
development and intensify cooperation in frontier areas such as the
digital economy, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and quantum
computing, and advance the development of big data, cloud computing,
and smart cities so that they can combine to form a digital silk road
of the 21st century. We should promote the full integration of science
and technology into industry and finance, improve the environment for
innovation, and pool resources for innovation. And in this age of the

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