Recently, the “Belt and Road 10th Anniversary: Achievements and Future” international Academic Forum was held at Renmin University of China, where more than 150 Chinese and foreign politicians, university presidents, experts and scholars from 13 countries and 68 institutions gathered to discuss the achievements and future of the “Belt and Road”.
Zhang Donggang, Secretary of the Party Committee of Renmin University of China, Sun Zhuangzhi, Director of the Institute of Russian East European and Central Asian Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Sergei Glaziev, Director of the Department of Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Commission and former Economic Adviser to the President of Russia, and Ayiguli Abdelayeva, President of Kyrgyzstan State University, attended and addressed the opening ceremony. Zheng Shuiquan, deputy Party secretary of Renmin University of China, presided over the opening ceremony.
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the “the Belt and Road” initiative and a new starting point for Chinese path to modernization to embark on a new journey. Over the past decade, the “the Belt and Road Initiative” has been transformed from a Chinese initiative to an international practice, from concept to action, from vision to reality, and has become a popular international public product and international cooperation platform.
Zhang Donggang said that the Renmin University of China will take this forum as an opportunity to unswervingly contribute more wisdom, plans and strength to the people’s congress to continue to promote high-quality co construction of the “the Belt and Road”, implement the global development initiative, global security initiative and global civilization initiative, and continue to respond to unprecedented changes in the world, times and history!
Sun Zhuangzhi said that in the past ten years, the construction of the “the Belt and Road” has fully considered the characteristics of phased and regional differences, and has formed a unique new concept and model of international cooperation. The joint construction of the “the Belt and Road” conforms to the internal requirements of the reform of the global governance system, highlights the awareness of a community with a shared future for mankind, and provides new ideas and plans for improving the reform of the global governance system.
Sergei Graziev stated that the world is rapidly changing today, and the governance paradigm of global politics and economy is also constantly changing. At present, the total amount of financial cooperation under the “the Belt and Road” framework has exceeded the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and other international financial organizations combined. Jointly building the “the Belt and Road” has become a new engine for international economic cooperation and development.
Ayeguli Abdlayeva said that the joint construction of the “the Belt and Road” has become the world’s largest international cooperation platform. The “China fever” and “Chinese fever” continue to heat up in Central Asia. I believe that in the future, China’s cooperation with Kyrgyzstan and cooperation with Central Asia will be further expanded and deepened.
During the keynote speech, Tian Dewen, Deputy Director of the Russian Institute of Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Yang Guangbin, Dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University of China, and Erdo Tulyakov, Director of the Uzbekistan Development Strategy Center, delivered speeches successively.
Tian Dewen said that under the framework of China’s diplomacy in the new era, the “the Belt and Road” initiative is the most important landmark project. Looking ahead, humanity will be in a long-term process of surpassing Western international relations models with a new type of international relations model, which will be a process of surpassing Cold War thinking with the “Silk Road spirit”.
Yang Guangbin said that with the “the Belt and Road” initiative as a symbol, China’s global identity has undergone revolutionary changes. We have proposed “world politics” to explain China’s global identity changes, which are based on the institutional changes driven by political trends formed in the world market, as well as the shaping of major country relations and world order, providing a basic methodology for observing changes in the world order.
Erdo Tulyakov stated that China is an important diplomatic and economic partner of Uzbekistan. In recent years, economic and trade cooperation between the two countries has flourished. China and Uzbekistan have made joint efforts to promote the “the Belt and Road” initiative, actively promoting the prosperity and development of the region and the world.
At the subsequent main forum and sub forum, the experts and scholars attending the meeting held discussions around the theme of “History and Times: Review of Ten Year Achievements of the the Belt and Road”, “Initiatives and Ideas: Development of the the Belt and Road and a Community with a Shared Future for Humanity”, “Practice and Development: Connectivity of the the Belt and Road, Green Development and People to People Cooperation”.
Gao Jingzhai, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Russian Institute of Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Zhang Xiaojing, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of International Relations at Renmin University of China, delivered speeches at the closing ceremony of the forum. Gao Jingzhai said that it is necessary to closely combine the “the Belt and Road” study with the study of Chinese path to modernization and the study of Chinese civilization and culture, so as to better pool consensus and form joint forces, so that the joint construction of the “the Belt and Road” will be stable in the next decade and even longer. Zhang Xiaojing said that educational exchanges and cooperation are an important way to achieve people to people connectivity. He hopes that more young people in the “the Belt and Road” countries can enhance understanding, enhance mutual trust and increase cooperation in face-to-face exchanges, and walk across mountains and seas, so as to work together for a better future of the “the Belt and Road”.
The forum was co sponsored by the School of International Relations of Renmin University of China and the Russian Institute for Eastern Europe and Central Asia of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, organized by the Russian Institute for Eastern Europe and Central Asia of Renmin University of China, and co organized by the “the Belt and Road” Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the “the Belt and Road” Green Development Research Institute of the Chinese Center for International Cultural Exchange, and the Science and Technology and Innovation Policy Research Center of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
