Source：China Moves West：The Evolving Strategies of the Belt and Road Initiative, 2024, PP.203-220

Abstract：When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Kazakhstan and Indonesia in September and October 2013, he proposed the idea of jointly building the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Twenty-First-Century Maritime Silk Road. Since then, the Belt and Road Initiative has gradually become one of the core issues of China’s foreign relations. In 2015, the Chinese government published The Vision and Actions on Jointly Building the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road to promote the implementation of the initiative, instill vigor and vitality into the ancient Silk Road, connect Asian, European, and African countries more closely, and promote mutually beneficial cooperation to a new high and in new forms. At the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China held in October 2017, promoting the construction of the Belt and Road was written into the party constitution, which shows that China’s ruling party regards the BRI as a long-term development plan. The BRI, which is characterized by westward development, has survived its first ten years. As such, it is time to review its first decade and build on the research forwarded in this volume and elsewhere to develop some insights into key issues for the BRI going forward.