The Belt and Road Initiative: Key Concepts

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This book introduces the “Belt and Road” in its entirety, including what it is, what it aims to do, what it can do and how. This book can serve as a helpful resource for the general public, it can improve their understanding about the “Belt and Road” and its relative economics, policy, culture and so on. Also, this book is good reading for academics, as well as students of public management, politics, finance and economics. The “Belt and Road” advances a whole complementary set of new ideas on international cooperation. Conforming to the principles of peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit, it stipulates policy coordination, facilitates connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial integration and people-to-people bonds as the five major contents, and promotes practical cooperation in all fields. It also works to build an open and win-win regional community featuring mutual political trust, economic integration and cultural inclusiveness. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii What Is the Belt and Road Initiative? (Huping Shang)....Pages 1-25 What Can the Belt and Road Initiative Do? (Huping Shang)....Pages 27-44 The Belt and Road in History (Huping Shang)....Pages 45-69 What Did We Benefit from the Belt and Road in History? (Huping Shang)....Pages 71-83 How Will Different Industries Participate in the Belt and Road Initiative? (Huping Shang)....Pages 85-107 Investment Risks and Risk Aversions in the Belt and Road (Huping Shang)....Pages 109-136 Overseas Voices and Countermeasures (Huping Shang)....Pages 137-158 Back Matter ....Pages 159-169