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2014-August-5

New Opportunities on the Silk Road

 

Openness, Inclusiveness, Trust and Innovation

As openness and inclusiveness are traditions of the ancient Silk Road and prerequisites for cultural coexistence, all parties agree that it is necessary to adhere to these principles in building the Silk Road Economic Belt.

“The Silk Road Economic Belt will build a new platform to promote exchanges and cooperation between countries and organizations in the region and facilitate maximum openness. The initiative intends to build trade and transportation connections to link the industries in different countries, and bring forth a proper international division of labor and thus realize the principle of equality and reciprocity,” said Sun Zhuangzhi, secretary-general of the Center for Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

According to Sayfullo Safarov, deputy director of the Institute of the Tajikistan President Strategy Research, common development will make countries turn from competitors into partners. Contradictions between countries will be outweighed by their shared interests.

China has consistently advocated harmonious relationships with surrounding countries, not only establishing mutually beneficial economic ties, but developing friendly cultural exchanges. Mohamed Noman Galal, former Egyptian ambassador to China, recently observed that China is not a colonial power and will never be one in the future, a comment based on the country’s historical records. In the past, China sought trade rather than expansion, and will continue to build a world civilization through dialogue, trade and investment. The initiative of the Silk Road Economic Belt is a great step forward in building peaceful and beneficial relations between China and the world, and particularly the Middle East.

 

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