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In the 10 years since the Belt and Road Initiative was proposed in 2013, the international situation has undergone profound and complex changes, multilateral rules and the international order have come under pressure, and global economic recovery is still under great pressure due to the impact of the pandemic in the past three years. Yet, the achievements of the Belt and Road Initiative are there for all to see.

While 151 countries and 32 international organizations have signed agreements on Belt and Road cooperation, by the end of 2022, Chinese enterprises had invested a total of US$57.13 billion in overseas economic and trade cooperation zones in countries along the Belt and Road, creating 421,000 local jobs. The total value of new contracts and turnover of contracted projects in the Belt and Road countries exceeded US$1.2 trillion and US$800 billion respectively, accounting for more than half of the total value of overseas contracted projects.

Over the past decade, the Belt and Road Initiative has become a booster for China-ASEAN economic and trade cooperation. The proportion of China- ASEAN trade in goods in China's total trade in goods increased from 10.7% to 15.5%. ASEAN has remained China's largest trading partner for three consecutive years since it first became China's largest trading partner in 2020. China has been ASEAN's largest trading partner for 14 consecutive years. Among them, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia are China's top three trading partners in ASEAN.

Over the past decade, major Belt and Road cooperation projects have been implemented. People in Montenegro got their first highway, people in Sri Lanka got 24-hour tap water, and villagers in Cambodia got rid of their lives without electricity, roads and the outside world. Smooth progress has been made in the operation and construction of key lines such as the China-Laos Railway and the Budapest-Belgrade Railway, and a number of small but wonderful livelihood projects in agriculture, health and poverty reduction have been implemented.

Over the past decade, projects have created corridors across Eurasia, from ports to railways, allowing people and goods to move freely between East and West.

From the successful launch of the first China-Europe freight train in 2011 to the launch of 16,000 China-Europe freight trains and the delivery of 1.6 million TEus in 2022, and the delivery of 756,000 TEUs of goods on the Western Land and Sea New Corridor, the "steel camel train" has strongly supported the stability and smooth flow of the international supply chain and industrial chain.

China has worked with other parties to improve the Belt and Road cooperation mechanism for green development, launched the Belt and Road Green Development Partnership Initiative with 31 co-contributing countries, and trained 3,000 green development professionals for over 120 Belt and Road co-contributing countries through the Green Silk Road Envoys Program.

The Belt and Road Initiative has been transformed over the past decade, turning its vision into reality. More and more countries and regions are boarding the "express train" of development through this initiative and sharing development opportunities with China.

As the most active and dynamic social forces, Chinese and foreign youth need to participate in international competition and cooperation on a larger scale and at a higher level if they want to play a role in today's world, which is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century. In order to have sufficient confidence to make their voices heard in the process of globalization and on the different international stages, and to give full play to the role of young people, it is necessary to have a broad vision.

The past decade has proved that the Belt and Road Initiative has not only enriched the mechanism and content of international development cooperation and given important impetus to the development of countries along the routes, but also provided a broader vision for young people in China and abroad to understand the world and an important platform for them to play their role.

Opportunities with challenges, responsibility implies responsibility, young people at home and abroad should be self-improvement!