Rebeca Phang | Promote High-Quality Belt and Road Cooperation
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**读书嘉宾：**Rebeca Phang （彭瑞），中国网新闻中心编辑、短视频节目“彭瑞话中国”主持人。2019年获得中国政府友谊奖。  英文文本： Promote High-Quality Belt and Road Cooperation An ancient Chinese philosopher observed that “plants with strong roots grow well, and efforts with the right focus ensure success”. Belt and Road cooperation embraces the historic trend of economic globalization, responds to the call for improving the global governance system,and addresses people’s desire for a better life. As our next step, we should focus on priorities and project execution, move forward with meticulous implementation, and join together to promote high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. –We need to be guided by the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits. We need to act in the spirit of multilateralism, pursue cooperation through consultation, and keep all participants motivated. We intend to tap into all the strengths of all participants through bilateral, trilateral or multilateral cooperation. As a Chinese proverb says, “A tower is composed of many a grain of sand, and a river is formed of many a stream.” –We need to take an open, green and clean approach. Belt and Road cooperation is not about establishing an exclusive club. It aims to promote green development. We should launch green infrastructure projects, make green investment, and provide green financing to protect the Earth which we all call home. In pursuing Belt and Road cooperation, everything should be done in a transparent way, and we should have zero tolerance for corruption. The Beijing Initiative for a Clean Silk Road that has been launched is for this very purpose,and manifests our strong commitment to transparency and clean governance in Belt and Road cooperation. –We need to pursue high-standard cooperation to improve people’s lives and promote sustainable development. We will apply widely accepted rules and standards and encourage participating companies to comply with general international rules and standards in building and operating projects and in the process of procurement, project bidding and tendering. The laws and regulations of participating countries should also be respected. We need to take a people-centered approach, give priority to poverty alleviation and job creation,and guarantee that Belt and Road cooperation will deliver true benefits to the people of participating countries and contribute to their social and economic development. We also need to ensure the commercial and fiscal sustainability of all projects so that they will achieve the intended goals as scheduled.