Using Connectivity as a Boon to Development and Partnership to Facilitate Cooperation

Xi Jinping delivered an address at the Dialogue on Becoming Better Connected Partners, Beijing, on November 8, 2014.

“Using Connectivity as a Boon to Development and Partnership to Facilitate Cooperation” is an address delivered at the Dialogue on Becoming Better Connected Partners, Beijing, on November 8, 2014. The address states, “The connectivity we need to build should be more about three integrated pillars—infrastructure, rules and institutions, and flows of people. It should involve equal priority being given to progress in five areas — policy communication, infrastructure connectivity, trade links, capital flows, and bonds between peoples. The Belt and Road Initiative and the endeavor to strengthen connectivity share compatible aims and are mutually reinforcing. We should deepen our connectivity as partners, optimize Asia’s regional cooperation, and work together to build a community of common development and a shared future.”