{"id":22805,"date":"2023-10-18T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/xi-jinping-opens-belt-and-road-forum-in-beijing"},"modified":"2023-10-18T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T18:06:00","slug":"xi-jinping-opens-belt-and-road-forum-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/xi-jinping-opens-belt-and-road-forum-in-beijing","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping opens Belt and Road forum in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span><b>Chinese president Xi Jinping opened the Belt and Road forum in Beijing on Wednesday, with a message that China \u201ccan only do well when the world is doing well\u201d.<\/b><br \/>\nChina is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which has extended Chinese economic and geopolitical influence across the globe.<br \/>\nChina is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which has extended Chinese economic and geopolitical influence across the globe.<br \/>\nIn his opening speech, Xi promised to extend access to China\u2019s market for international firms and for new financing exceeding $100 billion for other developing economies.<br \/>\nHe added that two Chinese-backed development banks \u2013 the China Development Bank and the Export\u2013Import Bank of China \u2013 will each set 350 billion yuan ($47.9 billion) financing windows, while an additional 80 billion yuan ($11 billion) will be injected into the Silk Road Fund to support BRI projects.<br \/>\n\u201cViewing other\u2019s development as a threat, or taking economic interdependence as a risk will not make one\u2019s own life better or speed up one\u2019s own development,\u201d Xi said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have learned that the silk road spirit of peace and cooperation, mutual learning and mutual benefit, openness and win-win is the most important source of strength for the Belt and Road cooperation.\u201d<br \/>\nThe initiative has deepened China\u2019s relations with Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East through large infrastructure projects such as power plants, roads, railroads and ports.<br \/>\nAs for China-Africa cooperation, one of the BRI\u2019s most significant features is its emphasis on green infrastructure projects and renewable energy development.<br \/>\nOf the representatives from more than 130 mostly developing countries attending the forum, including at least 20 heads of state and government, several African leaders are present.<br \/>\nKenyan\u2019s President William Ruto and Ethiopia\u2019s President Abiy Ahmed, amongst others, are in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\">Eritrea<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. Chinese president Xi Jinping opened the Belt and Road forum in Beijing on Wednesday, with a message that China \u201ccan only do well when the world is doing well\u201d. China is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which has extended Chinese economic and geopolitical influence across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":22804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[242,243,233],"class_list":["post-22805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eritrea","tag-eritrea"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Xi Jinping opens Belt and Road forum in Beijing - Eritrea<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/xi-jinping-opens-belt-and-road-forum-in-beijing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Xi Jinping opens Belt and Road forum in Beijing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. 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