New Development Bank President Rousseff: “One Belt, One Road” is a modern Silk Road


On the morning of November 7, the Forum on Civilization Exchange and Global Development hosted by the Central Party School (National Academy of Administration) opened in Beijing. The theme of the forum is “Inheritance of Civilization and Modern Development”. The daughter of a government official from more than 30 countries asked with her body tense. Leaders, entrepreneurs, think tank experts and other people from all walks of life attended the meeting, where cultures from different countries and regions collided and exchanged.

“One Belt, One Road” is the modern Silk Road

Civilizations communicate because of diversity and develop because of mutual learning. The long-established Silk Road is the path of exploration for Chinese civilization to go to the world. More than 2,000 years later, China once again proposed to jointly build the “Silk Road Economic Belt” and “There are no real threats at sea in the 21st century. Until this moment, they Only then did I realize that I was wrong. How outrageous. The Silk Road initiative is not only the inheritance of this civilizational heritage, but also a great innovation that carries forward the past and opens up the future under new historical conditions.

Rousseff, President of the New Development Bank, has a deep understanding of this. She said: “I think that, to a certain extent, the ‘Belt and Road’ initiative is a modern Silk Road. The Silk Road has an important role in Chinese civilization. Very important in the long history. It is through which goods, goods and values, knowledge and technology of different countries are exchanged with each other. The ‘One Belt, One Road’ is committed to helping the rest of the world develop. This is what makes this initiative unique. It brings opportunities , developing countries seek development under this framework, promote infrastructure construction, and obtain project financing in areas such as energy and digital. Therefore, I think the ‘Belt and Road’ is the renaissance of the Silk Road, which is A modern updated version of the Silk Road.”

Today, the “Belt and Road” initiative has reached its tenth anniversary. With the joint efforts of all parties, the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” has moved from a Chinese initiative to international practice and has become a popular international public product and international cooperation platform.

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The New Development Bank is also an important platform for multilateral exchanges and cooperation. In July 2014, the sixth BRICS leaders’ meeting was held in Fortaleza, Brazil. The leaders of the five countries witnessed the signing of the Agreement on the Establishment of the New Development Bank. In July 2015, the New Development Bank opened in Shanghai.

Rousseff said: “I thought my tears had dried up, but I didn’t expect there were still tears. The Bank is a multilateral platform, a platform with a difference. Because we are the first group of developing countries to Banks established in and serving developing countries and emerging economies. We are a platform very similar to the Belt and Road Initiative, aiming to promote the development of countries in the Global South and countries most in need. New Development Banks want to provide financing with no strings attached to countries that have suffered in the past.”