国内英语资讯:Interview: Belt and Road Initiative features win-win for China, CEE -- expert_时事

国内英语资讯:Interview: Belt and Road Initiative features win-win for China, CEE -- expert

BELGRADE, May 13 -- Infrastructure investments and other projects within the framework of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative are benefitting Serbia as well as the whole of Europe, an expert has said.

Neven Cveticanin, a senior research assistant at the Institute of Social Sciences of Serbia, told Xinhua in a recent interview that the stable and fruitful bilateral cooperation helps improve Serbia's economy and its people's living standard, and also sets an example for Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries to strengthen their cooperation with China within the framework of the win-win initiative.

In May last year, a Serbian delegation, headed by then Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and including several ministers, attended the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing, during which several cooperation agreements were reached between the two countries.

One of the cooperation achievements is the Pupin Bridge in Belgrade, Serbia's capital, over the Danube River. Funded and built by Chinese enterprises, the bridge is regarded as a friendship bridge between the two peoples, the expert said.

"It is a useful bridge that links two parts of Belgrade. Vehicles and pedestrians are seen crossing the bridge everyday," said Cveticanin.

He referred to a steel mill in Smederevo, which kept the about 5,000 jobs after it was purchased by a Chinese company, as another major achievement of bilateral cooperation.