One Belt One Road Europe
On November 28- 29, 2017, China Construction 4.0 forum was held in Changsha, Hunan, as part of the”Prefabricated Building and Construction Technology Expo”. Sébastien Goulard, manager and consultant of Cooperans and coordinator of the OBOReurope platform, spoke at the”Belt and
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang traveled to Budapest on November 27, 2017 to attend the 6th China- Central and Eastern European Countries summit. This meeting took place within the framework of the 16 + 1 cooperation which brings together sixteen countries
On 17 November 2017, Dourges rail station in northern France welcomed the first freight train containing only Decathlon brand products imported from China. This train, which left Wuhan on October 28 in Hubei Province, took less than 20 days to
On November 17, 2017, Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang during a state visit to China. The two presidents signed a cooperation agreement under the “Belt and Road” initiative. Thanks to
HNA Holding Group, subsidiary of HNA Group, a major company in the tourism industry in China and in the world with Hainan Airlines and Aigle Azur (France), has bought the Singaporean company CWT. CWT is the main logistics company in
During Russian Prime Minister Medvedev‘s visit to Beijing on November 1, 2017, President Xi Jinping said he supports the development of the Arctic Polar route as a new axis of the Belt and Road initiative. The Polar Route Russia has
On October 18, 2017, the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China was inaugurated. At this event, President Xi Jinping received from CPC delegates a new five-year term as head of China. Communist Party delegates also enshrined Xi Jinping
In October 2017, Shahidul Haque, Bangladesh’s foreign secretary reaffirmed his country’s desire to join the Belt and Road initiative, at the World Economic Forum in New Delhi. Shahidul Haque stated that his country needed to be better connected to the
A new route through Caucasus may be added to the various corridors of the Belt and Road initiative. In April 2017, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Georgia signed a protocol on a future Trans-Caspian International Transport route. Other regional states such as
Mongolia is increasingly involved in the realization of the new Silk Roads. One of the corridors of this initiative linking China to Russia is passing though Mongolia. The Belt and Road initiative aims to improve transport and communication infrastructure between