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"The year 2013 is beginning to write its final lines, and to gather the edges of its garment to embrace a new year. China and its President Xi Jinping refuse to let that year pass without a memory that will remain firmly established in the history of human cooperation. Leader Xi Jinping proposed during his tour of Central Asia and the ASEAN group in September and October 2013, the "Silk Road Economic Belt" and "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" initiative (known as the Belt and Road for short), this project gives a new modern pulse to the ancient Silk Road and provides a new impetus to Asian and Eurasian cooperation.
Why are we launching the "Belt and Road" initiative at this time? Why do we introduce the term "Silk Road Economic Belt" and not the term "New Silk Road"? Why do we specify the addition of the "Maritime Silk Road" to the "twentieth-first century"... What is the difference between the term "Maritime Silk Road for the twenty-first century" and the Maritime Silk Road throughout history? What are the countries and regions covered by the "Belt and Road"? How to establish the "Belt and Road" initiative? What is the relationship between it and the regional cooperation frameworks and international systems actually available on the ground? What are the ambitions and challenges facing this initiative? What changes does the Belt and Road Initiative predict will occur in China and the world's relations? How much time does it take to establish and consolidate it? What changes will happen to China's relations with the world after the establishment of this initiative?
Through many fresh academic terms, ranging from economic to geopolitical, that accompanied the emergence of this initiative and which accompany you between the two pages of this book, we learn about the impressions of various countries regarding joining the Chinese development train. The Chinese economy is currently going through a transitional phase from growth based on exports and industrialization to an economic pattern that focuses on promoting sustainable development, green energy, the growth of the consumer class, and urbanization.
This book in your hands has attempted to provide standard answers to all the fundamental questions related to the "Belt and Road" initiative, through which China offers a solution to exploit its ever-growing capabilities to assume its seat as an engine of global economic growth in the future.
For all those who are eager to know the true features of the Chinese dragon and its experience with the reform and opening-up policy for more than thirty years and its new initiative with supra-global features, we present (The Belt and Road... What will China offer to the world?).