More than two millennia ago, the valiant and industrious people from Eurasia have explored several routes for trade and people-to-people exchanges linking the major civilizations of Asia, Europe and Africa, which are collectively called the Silk Road by later generations. For thousands of years, the Silk Road Spirit of "peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual benefit and win-win situations" has been passed from generation to generation, greatly promoting both prosperity and development of those countries along the Silk Road.

In the 21st century, it is more important for the Silk Road Spirit to be inherited and expanded in face of the weak recovery of the world economy and complex international as well as regional situations. In the principle of shared deliberation, actively promoting mutual docking of Development Strategies along the Silk Road will be a pressing matter of the moment now that “the Belt and Road Initiative” is a systematic project.

The Belt and Road Initiative aims to promote the connectivity of Asian, European and African continents as well as their adjacent seas, establish and strengthen partnerships among the countries along the Belt and Road, establish all-dimensional and multi-tiered connectivity networks, so as to achieve diversified, independent, balanced and sustainable development of all these countries. The connectivity projects of “the Belt and Road Initiative” will tap potential of regional market, improve investment and consumption, create demands and employments, and enhance people-to-people exchanges among all relevant countries.