The BRI: A Decade On｜Guangdong：Growing Connectivity

More than a thousand years ago, Zhang Qian, a Chinese imperial envoy, set out on a westward expedition covering thousands of miles, laying the foundation of the Silk Road. Ten years ago, the “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” were envisioned to revitalize ancient trading routes, which came to be known as the Belt and Road Initiative.

Over the past decade, the Belt and Road Initiative has been implemented with fruitful results, its grand road map at the planning stage translated into tangible projects. To show how the Belt and Road Initiative has transformed BRI countries in the past ten years, Sounthern Finance Omnimedia Corp. produced a special documentary The BRI: A Decade On. Join SFC on a journey across continents and oceans.

Guangdong has been one of the country's major maritime gateways to the world since ancient times. Now, under the development of the BRI, Guangdong not only has the world's fifth-largest port but also connects to the world with China-Europe Railway Express. With the interweaving of shipping lines and railways, Southeast Asian countries Malaysia and Singapore have closer cooperation with China. Initiating from infrastructure construction to people-to-people exchange, people from diverse nations gradually come together, share the culture of tea and establish the mutual understanding. As is said that a single flower does not make spring, while one hundred flowers in full blossom bring spring to the garden.