From China’s southeast coast to the Mediterranean, from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean, China, boasting rich experience and strong construction capabilities, has constantly promoted the world’s connectivity by building infrastructure, having facilitated both physical links and people-to-people exchanges between different countries.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan hosted a banquet Friday evening in honor of guests attending the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing.

For more than five years since the Belt and Road Initiative was proposed, Chinese enterprises have carried out in-depth cooperation with an increasing number of countries and regions in various fields, achieving mutual development to the benefit of both sides.

Major challenges faced by the BRI are in fact faced by any initiative in the world.

Since it was proposed in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative has won support in regions across the globe including Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, and Africa.

The Belt and Road Studies Network (BRSN), co-initiated by Xinhua Institute and 15 other think tanks, was inaugurated in Beijing Wednesday.

The Belt and Road Initiative helps expand the world market and create more jobs, contributes wisdom for promoting development, and strongly supports the realization of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The English and French editions of a compilation of President Xi Jinping's discourses on the Belt and Road Initiative were published Wednesday.

Infrastructure projects under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative streamline necessary arrangements to build infrastructure in Africa and enable local businesses to invest more in their own operations.

From zero ships to fleet patrolling overseas, from a small group lacking everything to a fully outfitted naval force, the Chinese Navy has gone through seven extraordinary decades.