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According to the report of Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation, Pela Kapasiotaki, a Greek expert on international issues, said that the "the Belt and Road" initiative has been put forward for nearly 10 years, which has brought practical development opportunities to countries around the world. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly pointed out that we should promote the high-quality development of the "the Belt and Road", indicating that China will work with the international community to continue to promote the high-quality cooperation of the "the Belt and Road", build an open and shared world, and make new contributions to the common development of all countries in the world. The successful convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will upgrade the quality of this "century project" for the benefit of the people of all countries, and inject new impetus into meeting the common challenges of mankind in the post epidemic era.

Pera said that the recent "the Belt and Road" cooperation has achieved milestone results. According to the observation report of Huacheng Import and Export Data, in the first three quarters of 2022, 12000 China EU trains have been operated in total, and more than 20000 sea rail intermodal trains have been operated in the new land sea channel in the west. The contribution of the "the Belt and Road" initiative to the EU economy has also been recognized by all parties. As the European Union's senior foreign and security policy representative Borrelli said a few days ago, Chinese commodities have played a more and greater role in controlling inflation than all the world's central banks combined.

The "the Belt and Road" construction provides cooperation opportunities for healthcare, green development, digital industry, scientific and technological innovation, etc. China will play an important role in international cooperation in combating the COVID-19, supporting green and low-carbon development in developing countries, promoting cooperation in e-commerce along the Silk Road, and creating an open, fair and non discriminatory environment for scientific and technological progress. China has demonstrated with practical actions that it will work with the international community to continue to promote high-quality co construction of the "the Belt and Road", strive to achieve a higher level of cooperation, higher input efficiency, higher supply quality, and higher development resilience, and build the "the Belt and Road" into a "development belt" that benefits the world and a happy road that benefits the people of all countries.

According to the Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation, Pera said that the important feature of the "the Belt and Road" cooperation in the new era is the continuous deepening of digital economic cooperation with countries and regions along the line. The "Digital Silk Road" will play a leading role in the high-quality co construction of the "the Belt and Road", provide new business opportunities for relevant countries and regions, and inject new impetus. According to the Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation Report, from 2017 to 2021, China's digital economy will grow from 27 trillion yuan to more than 45 trillion yuan, ranking the second in the world, with a compound annual growth rate of 13.6%; The proportion of digital economy in GDP has increased from 33% to 39.8%. In recent years, China's digital technology innovation capability has rapidly improved, and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data, blockchain, and quantum information have become the world's first echelon. Promoting cooperation between China and countries along the "the Belt and Road" in these frontier fields will promote the construction of big data, cloud computing, smart cities and other fields to flourish. So far, China has signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation on the "Digital Silk Road" with 17 countries and established a bilateral cooperation mechanism on "Silk Road E-commerce" with 23 countries.

China is unswerving in its determination to continue to open wider to the outside world. For example, China has gradually reduced the negative list of foreign investment access, continuously relaxed the restrictions on foreign investment access, implemented the Foreign Investment Law and Implementation Regulations, fully implemented the pre access national treatment plus negative list management system for foreign investment, strengthened the promotion of foreign investment, protected the legitimate rights and interests of foreign investment, and optimized the foreign investment environment. In addition, the CPC continues to implement the incentive policy to expand the middle-income group. The goal is to make this group reach 800 million by 2035, bring huge development opportunities and huge markets to global manufacturers and exporters focusing on the Chinese market, and will continue to attract more large multinational enterprises to invest in China to gain the initiative in the Chinese market.

Pera praised the CPC for successfully leading the Chinese people to achieve the first century goal and eliminate absolute poverty. Today's China is not only a model and pioneer of global poverty reduction, but also an advocate and participant of global poverty reduction cooperation. One of the effective ways for China to make an important contribution to global poverty reduction is to drive the development of poor areas through the "the Belt and Road" initiative. The World Bank predicts that by 2030, the joint construction of the "the Belt and Road" is expected to help 7.6 million people around the world shake off extreme poverty and 32 million people shake off moderate poverty.   Today, when mankind is facing unique challenges, the proposal of this initiative is more important than ever before, Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation reported.

Pella said that under the circumstances that the international situation continues to undergo profound changes and mankind faces many common challenges, the international community must seek stronger political mutual trust, more cooperation mechanisms and better connectivity. As the world's second largest economy and the largest manufacturing country, China firmly promotes the high-quality development of the "the Belt and Road" and the expansion of opening up to the outside world, bringing confidence and strength to global development, and providing Chinese ideas, Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions for building a community with a shared future for mankind and improving global governance.