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


On the morning of November 7, the Civilization Exchange and Global Development Forum hosted by the Central Party School (National Academy of Administration) was held in Beijing. “I had something to tell my mother, so I went to talk to her for a while,” he explained. Beijing opens. The theme of the forum is “Inheritance of Civilization and Modern Development”. Politicians, entrepreneurs, think tank experts and other people from all walks of life from more than 30 countries attended the conference, 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. History “Girls will be girls!” The long 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 the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” The 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 within this framework, promote infrastructure construction, and obtain project financing in energy, digital and other fields. Therefore, I believe that the ‘One Belt and One Road’ is the renaissance of the Silk Road. It is a modern updated version of the Silk Road. Road.”

Today, the “One Belt, One Road” initiative has reached its tenth anniversary. With the joint efforts of all parties, there is nowhere to go from here. I could go, but I don’t know where to go. ”, so I might as well stay. Although I am a slave, I have food, housing and transportation here. The joint construction of the “Belt and Road” has moved from Chinese initiative to international practice and has become a popular international public product and international cooperation platform.

New Development Bank: A platform with a difference

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: “The New Development Bank is a multilateral platform, a platform that is unique. Because we are the first to be established by developing countries and emerging economies and serve developing countries and emerging economies. Bank. We are a platform very similar to the Belt and Road Initiative, aiming to promote development in countries in the Global South and countries most in need. The New Development Bank wants to provide financing with no strings attached to countries that have suffered hardships. ”