Since it was first proposed in 2013, Xi told today's opening session, the Belt and Road has brought better infrastructure, increased trade, a degree of financial stability, and people from many lands working together to build railways, friendship, ports, and trust.

It has only been four years since Xi began his journey to building a better world, a mere Olympiad, but China is an intergenerational thinker. China's plans and initiatives do not span months or a single presidential term. When China looks to the future, China looks years, decades, centuries ahead. For more than a millennium the Silk Road was the world's most important trading corridor. With good will, trust and benefits for all, who knows what the next millennium may hold?

In the short term, China's 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) includes a commitment to import 10 trillion U.S. dollars worth of goods and to investment more than 500 billion dollars overseas, much of this under the Belt and Road framework.

There is a Taoist scripture that says: Tao gave birth to the one, the one gave birth successively to two things, three things, up to 10,000 -- one belt, one road, one human race, one future.

The reason that the Belt and Road will succeed is not just that it is a grand plan for a future of shared destiny. It is a grand plan to bring basic standards of living to people who have, by any standards, nothing. It is about super highways and high-speed railways, but it is also about a toilet, a vaccination, an old-age pension and the security of a square meal at the end of a day of hard work.

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