This issue's Special Report explores how opening-up has advanced China's modernization and also benefited the rest of the world.

China's development experience provides a reference for developing countries to move towards modernization.

The CIIE boosts China's trade cooperation with EU and wins it a bigger "circle of friends."

Over the past decade, China’s free trade zones have progressively formed a high-level innovation pattern of reform and opening-up in areas that extend from coastal regions to border provinces. They have become a leading force of high-level opening-up, a pioneer of in-depth reform, and a major platform that serves the national strategy. As pilot platforms for comprehensive reform and opening-up, they are now taking on a more arduous mission.

An Exclusive Interview with Greek Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Christos Staikouras.

Roberta Lipson, a pioneering U.S. entrepreneur in China, speaks of the CIIE’s role in international cooperation, healthcare in China, and her own experience in this exclusive interview.

The GCI advocates respect for the diversity of civilizations, the common values of humanity, which are peace, development, equity, justice, democracy and freedom, and international people-to-people exchanges and cooperation.

The GCI stresses the importance of cultural exchanges, which has moved from the sideline to the center stage of international relations.

Intercultural communication has always played an important role in the bilateral ties between China and Italy.

The special exhibition “The Greats of Six Centuries: Masterpieces from the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza,” held in Shanghai provides profound insight into the evolution of Western culture, lifestyle, and social landscapes over the 600 years.

An exclusive interview with Malta's Ambassador to China John Busuttil.

In the eyes of Croatian archaeologist Goran Durdevic, an ancient mirror can also reflect cultural exchanges along the ancient Silk Road.

Exchanges should be encouraged to help the garden of world civilization flourish, as the future of all countries is closely connected.

This special report aims to present our readers with an overview of how the initiative has benefited the participating countries and boosted common development by highlighting specific regions.