China News Service, Ningbo, May 15th. Title: International people hope that the "Belt and Road" will inject stability into global development.

Author Zhang Bin

The 2025 meeting of the Advisory Committee of the "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum was held in Ningbo, Zhejiang on the 15th. The members of the meeting discussed in-depth issues of common concern, such as building an open world economy, promoting the liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment, and strengthening cooperation in digital economy and artificial intelligence, and reached many consensuses.

In his opening speech, Ma Zhaoxu, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, said that jointly building the "Belt and Road" is an opportunity for connectivity, win-win cooperation and common development, and it is also a vivid practice for China and other "global southern" countries to work together to achieve modernization and build a community with a shared future for mankind. In the face of the current situation, we should firmly promote the "Belt and Road", build an open world economy, maintain the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization as the core, improve the level of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and promote inclusive and inclusive economic globalization.

High-quality co-construction: From infrastructure to digital innovation

Mari Elka Pangestu, former executive vice president of the World Bank (Indonesian), said that ASEAN and China are each other's largest trading partners, and the upgrading of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement has formed a synergy with the "Belt and Road" initiative. "Taking the Jakarta-Bandung High-speed Railway as an example, although the construction cycle is long, the two sides have accumulated valuable experience in technology transfer and talent training." In the future, Southeast Asia needs to further promote infrastructure connectivity and extend the "Belt and Road" cooperation to smart cities, new energy and other fields.

The members at the meeting believe that to vigorously promote the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road", we must focus on high-quality infrastructure and industrial cooperation, build a three-dimensional interconnection network, and strengthen the construction of green Silk Road and digital Silk Road.

China takes responsibility: it assumes dual responsibilities in global uncertainty

Li Daokui, director of the Institute of Chinese Economic Thought and Practice at Tsinghua University, said in an interview that China has assumed dual responsibilities in global uncertainty: First, stabilize the basic economic situation by expanding domestic demand, especially to enhance the consumption capacity of low-income groups; second, continue to promote scientific and technological innovation and provide impetus for global technological progress.

"Chinese companies like DeepSeek are showing leadership, and China's technological breakthroughs will inject new vitality into the world economy," said Li Daokui.

At present, China is already the main trading partner of more than 150 countries and regions, and is also the main source of investment for more and more countries. In the first quarter of this year, countries jointly built the "Belt and Road" accounted for 51.1% of China's foreign trade.

Global consensus: Multilateralism is the only way

Internationals believe that unilateralism and protectionism seriously impact the international economic order and harm the interests of the international community, especially the "global south". The Belt and Road Initiative provides new ideas for improving global governance.

"Southern countries around the world need more public products like the Belt and Road Initiative." Former Pakistani Prime Minister Kakar pointed out in an interview that the Belt and Road Initiative not only deepens the traditional friendship between Pakistan and China, but also provides other countries with a reference development model.

"The rise of protectionism should be dealt with through multilateral mechanisms." Mwencha, former vice chairman of the African Union Commission (Kenian nationality), proposed that within the framework of the "Belt and Road", we should strengthen cooperation in digital economy and artificial intelligence and support the capacity building of the "Global South". In the future, the construction of the Digital Silk Road should focus on technology inclusiveness and allow more developing countries to ride on the intelligent express train. (End)