Chapter 1　What Is the Belt and Road Initiative?

The Belt and Road Initiative is focused on Asia, Europe, and the entire global picture in overcoming the dilemma of whether to focus resources on the inland or the coast of recent times and developing a comprehensive, open land and sea route to benefit East and West in the 21st century. The keyword for the initiative is “connectivity,” and it applies to the aspects of infrastructure, policy, trade, capital, and people to-people exchange, for which complementation,equality, and wide-reaching inclusion are crucial.