In early December 2017, Kiev and Beijing signed a joint action plan to develop the new Silk Roads, Ukraine officially joined the “Belt and Road” initiative. Chinese Vice Prime Minister Ma Kai and Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman have signed
Yumen, from oil to culture
A recent article published in the China Daily describes the transformation of some cities in Western China through the Belt and Road initiative. The town of Yumen in the province of Gansu is being transformed partly through the “Belt and
The OBOR, a now global Chinese project
On May 14 and 15 2017, the first “Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation” will be held in China, and will bring together some 20 heads of state and government. For Wang Yiwei, researcher at the Center for China