China
unveiled on Saturday the principles, framework, and cooperation
priorities and mechanisms in its Belt and Road Initiative in a bid to
enhance regional connectivity and embrace a brighter future together. The
vision and actions on jointly building the Silk Road Economic Belt and
21st-Century Maritime Silk Road, an initiative raised by Chinese
President Xi Jinping during visits to Central Asia and Southeast Asia in
2013, was issued by China's top economic planner, the National
Development and Reform Commission and ministries of foreign affairs and
commerce. The
initiative aims to promote orderly and free flow of economic factors,
highly efficient allocation of resources and deep integration of markets
by enhancing connectivity of Asian, European and African continents and
their adjacent seas.It is
open to all countries and international and regional organizations for
engagement and honors mutual respect and market operation to seek common
prosperity, the plan said. "The
programs of development will be open and inclusive, not exclusive. They
will be a real chorus comprising all countries along the routes, not a
solo for China itself," Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Saturday
while addressing the opening ceremony of the 2015 annual conference of
the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) in the coastal town of China's
southernmost island province of Hainan. The
Initiative is not meant as rhetoric. It represents real work that could
be seen and felt to bring real benefits to countries in the region, Xi
added. The plan
called for policy coordination, facilities connectivity, unimpeded
trade, financial integration and people-to-people bonds to make
complementary use of participating countries' unique resource advantages
through multilateral mechanisms and multilevel platforms.
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