China's initiative of building the Silk Road Economic Belt is not aimed at so-called westward expansion, former Egypt Ambassador to China Mohamed NomanGalal said on June 26.
Former Hungary Ambassador to China OttóJuhász said that Europe should open more to China in China's initiative of building the Silk Road Economic Belt.
Over 2,000 years after the majestic ancient Silk Road linked East and West, the Eurasian network of trade routes is being overshadowed by conflicts and competition fueled by hunger for natural resources and geopolitical interests.
China had made marathon journeys before having its 2,400-year-old Grand Canal and its section of the millennium-old trade route Silk Road inscribed on the World Heritage list on Sunday.
Compared with three percent world economic growth and only one percent in three leading developed economies, Asia's growth last year at 6.1 percent was a seemingly unattainable feat.