BEIJING, Aug. 26 -- In just five years, the Belt and Road Initiative has grown from a concept to a key platform for building a community with a shared future for humanity and a well-received international public goods.
The following are some key facts about it.
-- In the autumn of 2013, respectively in Kazakhstan and Indonesia, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the building of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.
-- The initiative's top-level design has been completed, with basic structures set up. Important resolutions passed by the UN General Assembly and Security Council contain reference to it.
-- As of July 2018, more than 100 countries and international organizations had signed Belt and Road cooperation documents with China, extending the initiative's scope from the Eurasian continent to Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the South Pacific region.
-- On Nov. 8, 2017, China announced contributing 40 billion U.S. dollars to set up a Silk Road Fund to support the Belt and Road projects.
-- On March 28, 2017, China released the vision and actions on jointly building the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.
-- On Dec. 25, 2017, the China-initiated new multilateral financial institution Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank was established.
-- On May 14-15, 2017, the first-ever Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation was held in Beijing, attended by state and government leaders of 29 countries. The more than 1,600 participants came from over 140 countries and 80 international organizations.
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