Xi's Belt and Road speech wins wide praise
By Zhong Nan, Ma Si, He Wei, Liu Jing, Chen Jie, Wang Yanfei, Jin Dan, Cui Jia, Xin Zhiming, Chen Yingqun and Zhan Qianhui | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-05-14 11:14
Dominique de Villepin speaks on Launching of Dagong Global Infrastructure Credit Rating Methodology & Infrastructure Investment and Financing Forum. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] |
Dominique de Villepin, former prime minister of France
The Belt and Road Initiative is a project for peace, it's a project for prosperity, it's also a project for innovation, both technological and environmental. So it's a very important project in the world. Because it's going to give us a perspective of better stability, and also it's a global project, not only political and economic, but also cultural. It will create bridges and links between states and people.
President Xi Jinping has given us a very important perspective. The ancient Silk Road was a key project 2,000 years ago. And it is still a key project today, which will bring hopes to many people in Asia, Middle East, Africa and Europe.
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