Xi Jinping’s BRI Speech at Bo’ao Forum for Asia Reveals CCP’s Global Ambitions
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Xi Jinping, leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), delivered a speech at the Bo’ao Forum for Asia (BFA) 2021 via video on April 20, promoting the CCP’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) also known as “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) and the expansion of communism.
The Bo’ao Forum for Asia (BFA) 2021, which is an annual event, was held from April 18 to 21 in Bo’ao, Hainan Province, China.
At the beginning of his speech, Xi said that the annual forum was held in a “very special background,” and that its theme was “A World in Change: Join Hands to Strengthen Global Governance and Advance Belt and Road Cooperation,” which “is most opportune and relevant under the current circumstances.”
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In the Middle East and North Africa, there is increasing interest in collaborating with Chinese enterprises in investment and development of infrastructure. China is also keen to reorient the global economy to place China at the centre of world commerce through its Belt and Road Initiative. The “Belt” is short for the “Silk Road Economic Belt,” the proposed network of overland routes for road and rail transportation. The “Road” is the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” a network of ports and related installations throughout the world even including the polar Arctic (“the Polar Silk Road”).
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South China s Hainan province will host a number of sideline forums with a Hainan theme during the 2021 Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference, which starts today, to seek closer integration of Belt and Road Initiative development with construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port, said Wang Sheng, director of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee s Foreign Affairs Office, at a news conference held in Haikou on Thursday.
Officials and experts at The Free Trade Ports: The Global Trend, one of the sub-forums, will give their insights on how Hainan Free Trade Port can develop itself into a new highland of China s open economy through integrated institutional innovations, benchmarking the world s highest level of opening-up and learning from international experience.
An online forum themed on the symbiotic relationship between theatre culture and city development will be held today in Taicang city, East China's Jiangsu province.