The Belt and Road： China＇s Ambitious Initiative

The Belt and Road initiative refers Economic Belt and sea-based 21st by Chinese President Xi Jinping in to the land-based Silk Road Maritime Silk Road proposed 2013. During his state visit to Kazakhstan, in a speech at Nazarbayev University on September 7, 2013, President Xi proposed that China and Central Asia join hands to build a Silk Road economic belt to boost cooperation. The following month, on October 3, in his address to the Indonesian Parliament Xi proposed a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road as a new maritime silk road connecting China with the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations （ASEAN）, South Asian countries, Africa and Europe. On that occasion,