The Belt and Road Initiative faces the pressure of politics and debt, Chinese officials emphasize that it will build a new pattern of the Belt and Road to open to the outside world, and promote policy communication and strategic docking to ensure the stability and smooth flow of the Belt and Road industrial chain supply chain.
The Journalism Office of the State Council held a press conference on Tuesday (October 10) to introduce the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative.Cong Liang, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, quoted data that from 2013 to 2022, the cumulative scale of goods trade between China and the Belt and Road countries reached US $ 1.9.1 trillion (S $ 2.61 trillion), with an average annual growth rate of 6.4%.
From 2013 to 2022, the cumulative two -way investment in China and the Belt and Road countries exceeded $ 380 billion, of which direct investment in the Belt and Road countries exceeded US $ 240 billion.
The Chinese economy has returned to slow pace after the epidemic, and it is reported that China has begun to shrink the Belt and Road scale.After China launched the global development initiative in 2021, some analysts believe that the importance of the Belt and Road to China is declining and may gradually be replaced by global development.
Facing the attention of the outside world's prospects for the Belt and Road Initiative, Guo Tingting, deputy minister of the Ministry of Commerce of China, emphasized that China will "focus on promoting the Belt and Road economic and trade cooperation further."
She said that China will build a new pattern of opening up to the outside world, expand and facilitate the import and export of high -quality commodities, conduct major exhibitions, deepen trade cooperation with the country, and enhance the level of production and supply chain cooperation, promote policy communication and strategyDocking to ensure the stability and smooth flow of the industrial chain supply chain in the Belt and Road.
Guo Tingting said that China will cultivate new momentum of economic growth and coordinate the promotion of key projects and the construction of "small and beautiful" projects.
Over the past few years, China has continued to face the Belt and Road Initiative that has caused African countries to be questioned in debt trap.The report issued by the China and Global Development initiatives of the University of Boston showed that in the past two years, China's loans provided by Africa have fallen to the lowest level in nearly 20 years.
Some reporters asked why the reasons for the reduction in African loans to African loans at the press conference on Tuesday and how the slowdown of global economic growth affect China's loan on foreign governments.
丛亮回应时仅称，中国将与有关国家一道，不断完善长期、稳定、可持续、风险可控的投融资体系，并“积极创新投融资模式、拓宽投融资渠道，健全稳定、Transparent, high -quality fund guarantee system ".
The Belt and Road International Cooperation Summit Forum will be held in Beijing in October. Foreign heads of state that have been announced to be present include Russian President Putin.
Li Kexin, director of the International Economic Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, did not disclose the specific date of the forum when he was questioned at the press conference.He said that representatives from more than 130 countries and more than 30 international organizations have confirmed the meeting. The forum activities include the opening ceremony, interconnection, green development, and the digital economy three high -level forums.
Yu Hong, a senior researcher at the East Asia Research Institute of Singapore National University, analyzed in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that in addition to infrastructure, digital economic materials are another development focus of the Belt and Road Initiative;Measures and whether more countries participating in the digital Silk Road are one of the highlights of the summit.
Yu Hong pointed out that when some Belt and Road projects are facing financial difficulties, some countries are expected to ask for demands on financing support and debt reduction.The problem will also attract much attention.
