In this video, China Daily reporter Peng takes us to the enchanting Asian country of Cambodia to see the Belt and Road Initiative through the eyes of local people. She found that the Belt and Road Initiative is not just building infrastructure, but also building better lives and connecting people.
Since China proposed the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, substantial progress has been made in economic cooperation and people-to-people exchanges among the countries and regions involved in the initiative. Large State-owned enterprises play an active role in advancing overseas projects in such fields as infrastructure facilities construction, energy resources development and industry capacities cooperation. Chinese President Xi Jinping has inspected landmark Chinese-built projects in the BRI-involved countries and regions over the past decade. They typify Chinese-contracted projects' contribution to the development of local economy and improvement of residents' well-being in the destination communities.
A practice initiated by Xi Jinping, then Party chief of Zhejiang province, during a visit to Pujiang county 20 years ago has proven effective in preventing problems at grassroots level from escalating, and helped officials to promptly adjust government policies based on people's needs.
Erastus Mwencha, former deputy chairperson of the African Union Commission, finds it crucial that Chinese President Xi Jinping calls for countries to work together for a common good at a time when multilateralism is under severe attack.
President Xi Jinping has always put ecological protection high on his agenda. In this video, we review some of his quotes on the subject as well as China's ecological progress.
Antonio Tancredi Cadili, a 12-year-old Italian boy and puppetry enthusiast, still vividly remembers his first meeting with President Xi Jinping in Sicily, Italy in 2019.
A cultural "Belt and Road" is in the making through the Global Civilization Initiative, Hussein Askary, vice-chairman of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden, told China Daily.