Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation
This is the highest-level international event organized under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative. The main events include an opening ceremony, a Leaders Roundtable Summit and a high-level conference.
The first forum was organized by China in Beijing on May 14-15, 2017. A major diplomatic gathering in 2017, it was significant to international and regional cooperation. Twenty-nine foreign heads of state and government attended the forum along with the UN secretary-general and heads of two other international organizations, in addition to more than 1,500 representatives from over 130 countries. About 4,000 global journalists reported the event. Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the opening of the forum.
The major deliverables include more than 270 concrete results in five key areas – policy, infrastructure, trade, finance, and people-to-people connectivity.
Xi Jinping announced on May 15 at the Leaders Roundtable Summit that China would host the forum again in 2019.
“一帶一路”國際合作高峰論壇
“一帶一路”國際合作高峰論壇是“一帶一路”提出以來最高規(guī)格的論壇活動,主要包括開幕式、圓桌峰會和高級別會議三個部分。第一屆“一帶一路”國際合作高峰論壇于2017年5月14日至15日在北京舉行,是2017年中國重要的主場外交活動,對推動國際和地區(qū)合作具有重要意義。29位外國元首、政府首腦及聯(lián)合國秘書長、紅十字國際委員會主席等3位重要國際組織負責人出席高峰論壇,來自130多個國家的約1500名各界貴賓作為正式代表出席論壇,來自全球的4000余名記者注冊報道此次論壇。2017年5月14日,中國國家主席習近平出席論壇開幕式并發(fā)表主旨演講。經(jīng)過梳理和匯總形成的高峰論壇成果清單主要涵蓋政策溝通、設施聯(lián)通、貿(mào)易暢通、資金融通、民心相通5大類,共76大項、270多項具體成果。
2017年5月15日,習近平主持圓桌峰會并宣布中國將于2019年舉辦第二屆“一帶一路”國際合作高峰論壇。