Beijing (PR): President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday.As the second-largest economy in the world, China should be "more proactive" in dealing with other countries, Xi told a meeting attended by
\ngovernment officials, entrepreneurs and scholars.
\nThe president encouraged Chinese companies to invest in countries alongthe routes of the Belt and Road Initiative, also known as the Silk Road
\nEconomic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.He also said China welcomes investment from those countries.
\nAccording to Xi, more than 100 countries and global organizations have participated in China's Belt and Road Initiative, and more than 20
\ncountries have worked with China in production capacity cooperation in such areas as railway construction and nuclear power.
\nThe president urged the implementation of Belt and Road projects to ensure that the countries involved have "a sense of gain".
\nThe export of China's production and construction capacity could support the Belt and Road countries to push forward industrialization and will help to stabilize the world economy, he said.
\nThe Silk Road Economic Belt is a land-based route from China through entral Asia and Russia to Europe. The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road is a strategic route through the Strait of Malacca to India, the Middle East and East Africa.
\nThe Belt and Road Initiative, proposed by Xi in 2013, began to take shape in 2014 with a focus on infrastructure.
\nXi has made state visits to a number of countries, including the Czec Republic, Serbia, Poland and Uzbekistan, along the Belt and Road routes
\nthis year. More than 30 countries and international organizations have signed agreements and memorandums of understanding with China onjointly implementing the Belt and Road strategy.
\nAs part of the Belt and Road projects, freight trains have made more than 2,000 trips from China to Europe and back on 39 rail lines, according to the Foreign Ministry.
\nWang Licheng, board chairman of Hangzhou-based Holley Group, said at the meeting that the Thai-Chinese Rayong Industrial Zone, jointly developed by Wang and his partners in Thailand, has created more than 20,000 jobs for people in Thailand's east coastal region.
\nThe company plans to build an occupational school near the industrial zone to train more skilled workers, a proposal that has been welcomed by
\nThai authorities, he said.The entrepreneur suggested that the construction of industrial parks abroad should be set as China's national strategy, with supportive policies
\nestablished to encourage private companies to expand business overseas. Liu Weidong, director of the Belt and Road Strategy Institute of the
\nChinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that through the Belt and Road strategy, China could allocate global resources and provide services for
\nthe whole world.Wang Yiwei, an expert on European studies with Renmin University of China in Beijing, said that through the Belt and Road projects, China
\ncould share its development experience with other countries as well as find new markets for its production capacity.
\nCountries in the Central and Eastern Europe region are eager to develop ties with China to attract more Chinese investment, and President Xi's
\nstate visits to the CEE countries in March and June have brought results he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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