According to CCTV News, in 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his keynote speech at the first Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation that the ancient Silk Road stretched for thousands of miles and lasted for thousands of years, accumulating the Silk Road spirit with peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual learning, and mutual benefit and win-win as the core.
As a precious heritage of human civilization, the Silk Road spirit is not only historically inherited, but also endowed with a new connotation of the times.
In the Han Dynasty of China more than 140 years BC, a peace mission from Chang'an, with Silk, Porcelain, Tea and other Chinese specialties, opened the road from the East to the West, which is the famous Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions.
Zhou Honggang, associate professor of Shaanxi Normal University: According to the literature, Julius Caesar the Great of the Roman Empire and Cleopatra both liked Chinese silk. Among the envoys sent by the Han Dynasty to the countries of the Western Regions at that time, there were hundreds of large teams, and there were also more than a hundred people in the small number. Then the envoys carried a large amount of silk out of the country, and when they returned, they brought back all kinds of rare items from the western region. Grapes, walnuts, carrots, pomegranates, etc. from the western region also spread to China, which greatly enriched the diet of the Orientals.
Lu Shanbing, dean of the Silk Road Research Institute of Northwest University: Many people say that the Silk Road is not only silk? No, there are tea, porcelain, ironware, science, technology, culture, religion, and so on. The Silk Road is a large channel and platform for all-round exchanges. It should be said that it is an important trade, economic, cultural and people-to-people exchange channel for exchanges between ancient Asia and ancient Europe.
The Silk Road connects the East and the West, and for the first time builds a world transportation corridor, where multi-ethnic, multi-racial and multi-cultural intermingling. In the process of long-term exchanges, the Silk Road spirit of "peaceful cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual learning, mutual benefit and win-win" has been formed among various countries, which has also become a spiritual source shared by the people of all countries along the way.
In the autumn of 2013, during his visit to Kazakhstan and Indonesia, General Secretary Xi Jinping successively proposed to jointly build the "Silk Road Economic Belt" and the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road", which together constitute a major initiative of the "Belt and Road". This has allowed the ancient Spirit of the Silk Road to be passed down and developed in the contemporary era.
Gu Xueming, President of the Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce: The Spirit of the Silk Road is the crystallization of oriental wisdom and the precious heritage of human civilization. The joint construction of the "Belt and Road" inherits the spirit of the Silk Road and provides Chinese solutions for promoting the development of global cooperation. At present, in the new era with the theme of peace, development, cooperation and win-win results, in the face of the complex international situation, it is particularly important and precious to promote the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and inherit and carry forward the spirit of the Silk Road.
From the proposal of the initiative in 2013 to the first Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in 2017, the belt and road initiative has advanced from top-level design to project implementation, advancing in construction, improving in development, and growing in cooperation. From the one-country initiative to the multinational consensus, through policy communication, the "effect of one plus one is greater than two" has been achieved. At the same time, through facility connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial integration, and people-to-people bonds, a series of major projects have blossomed, driving the economic development of various countries, and participating countries have obtained tangible benefits, and their sense of identity and participation in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has been continuously enhanced.
On May 14, 2017, the first Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation was held in Beijing. General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech entitled "Jointly Promoting the Construction of the "Belt and Road"". In the speech, he revealed the rich connotation of the Silk Road spirit, expounded the great significance of the "Belt and Road" construction, clarified China's propositions and put forward Chinese plans on jointly promoting the construction of the "Belt and Road", profoundly answered major questions such as what kind of "Belt and Road" to build, how to build the "Belt and Road", and pointed out the direction of progress and injected surging momentum into strengthening international cooperation and achieving win-win development.
In 2019, at the second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, General Secretary Xi Jinping systematically summarized the fruitful results achieved in the past six years of jointly building the "Belt and Road", pointed out the practical path of jointly building the "Belt and Road" along the direction of high-quality development, declared China's firm determination and pragmatic measures to deepen reform and opening up in the new era, and injected a strong impetus into the construction of the "Belt and Road" from "big idea" to "work stroke".
Gu Xueming, President of the Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce: The practical significance of our carrying forward the spirit of the Silk Road lies in the concept of peace and cooperation advocated by it to help achieve lasting peace and common prosperity in the world and build a community with a shared future for mankind with peace and prosperity. Adhering to the spirit of the Silk Road and adhering to the principle of "consultation, co-construction and sharing" to promote the construction of the "Belt and Road", China will build a new platform for international trade and investment, open up new space for world economic growth, and also help us make better use of the two international and domestic markets and two kinds of resources to achieve domestic and foreign linkage development, and provide new momentum for promoting domestic and international dual circulation.
Edited by Chen Yuanyuan