The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (also known as the Belt and Road Forum or BaRF)
is an international political and economical forum of the
Belt and Road Initiative
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, or B&R), formerly known as One Belt One Road ( zh, link=no, 一带一路) or OBOR for short, is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 to invest in nearly 150 ...
.
2017
The first event was on 14 and 15 May 2017 in Beijing, and drew 29 foreign heads of state and government and representatives from more than 130 countries and 70 international organizations.
Agenda and activities
The purpose of the forum is described by Wang Xiaotao, deputy head of the
National Development and Reform Commission
The National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China (NDRC), formerly State Planning Commission and State Development Planning Commission, is a macroeconomic management agency under the State Council, which has br ...
, in an interview with Xinhua as building "a more open and efficient international cooperation platform; a closer, stronger partnership network; and to push for a more just, reasonable and balanced international governance system."
Western media
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History
T ...
coverage portrays the forum in a similar way with
CNN
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referring to the event under the headline "China's new world order" and the ''
Los Angeles Times
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'' running the article "Globalization 2.0: How China's two-day summit aims to shape a new world order".
The forum will be a platform for working out action plans for implementation of the initiative in the areas of infrastructure, energy and resources, production capacity,
trade
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An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct excha ...
and investment and identification of major projects.
It is also intended to be an opportunity for the signing of cooperation agreements with countries and international organizations in the areas of financial cooperation mechanism; a cooperation platform for science, technology and environmental protection; and enhanced exchanges and training of talent and financing agreements for backing projects.
Attendance
![Before the beginning of the Belt and Road international forum](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Before_the_beginning_of_the_Belt_and_Road_international_forum.jpg)
Heads of state and government
People's Republic of China (Host):
* President
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, s ...
* Premier
Li Keqiang
Li Keqiang (born 1 July 1955) is a Chinese politician who is the outgoing premier of China. An economist by profession, Li is head of China's executive branch as well as one of the leading figures behind China's Financial and Economic Affai ...
**Vice-Premier
Zhang Gaoli
Zhang Gaoli or Chang Kao-li ( zh, 张高丽; ; born 1 November 1946) is a retired Chinese politician. He served as the senior Vice Premier of the State Council between 2013 and 2018 and as a member of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo S ...
The forum is attended by 29 foreign heads of state and government and their respective delegations:
* Prime Minister
Beata Szydło
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of Poland
* Prime Minister
Viktor Orbán
Viktor Mihály Orbán (; born 31 May 1963) is a Hungarian politician who has served as prime minister of Hungary since 2010, previously holding the office from 1998 to 2002. He has presided over Fidesz since 1993, with a brief break between 20 ...
of Hungary
* Prime Minister
Aleksandar Vučić
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Vučić served ...
of Serbia
* Prime Minister
Alexis Tsipras
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Tsipras has led the Coalition of th ...
of Greece
* Prime Minister
Paolo Gentiloni
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of Italy
* Prime Minister
Mariano Rajoy
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of Spain
* Prime Minister
Hailemariam Desalegn
Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe ( amh, ኃይለማሪያም ደሳለኝ ቦሼ; born 19 July 1965) is an Ethiopian politician who served as prime minister of Ethiopia from 2012 to 2018. He also previously served as deputy prime minister and Minister ...
of Ethiopia
* Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu, Punjabi language, Punjabi: ; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms. He is the longest-serving prime ...
of Pakistan
* Prime Minister
Ranil Wickremesinghe
Ranil Wickremesinghe ( si, රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ, ta, ரணில் விக்கிரமசிங்க; born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who is the current president of Sri Lanka since 21 July 2 ...
of Sri Lanka
* Prime Minister
Jargaltulga Erdenebat
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Biography
Erdenebat was born on 17 July 1974 in Mandal sum, Selenge ...
of Mongolia
* Prime Minister
Hun Sen
Hun Sen (; km, ហ៊ុន សែន, ; born 5 August 1952) is a Cambodian politician and former military commander who has served as the prime minister of Cambodia since 1985. He is the longest-serving head of government of Cambodia, and o ...
of Cambodia
* Prime Minister
Mahathir bin Mohamad
Mahathir bin Mohamad ( ms, محاضير بن محمد, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset; ; born 10 July 1925) is a Malaysian politician, author, and physician who served as the 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia. He held the office ...
of Malaysia
* Prime Minister
Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama of Fiji
* State Counsellor
Aung San Suu Kyi
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of Myanmar
* President
Rodrigo Duterte
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of the Philippines
* President
Trần Đại Quang
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of Vietnam
* President
Joko Widodo
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of Indonesia
* President
Bounnhang Vorachith
Bounnhang Vorachit ( lo, ບຸນຍັງ ວໍລະຈິດ; born 15 August 1938) is a Laotian politician. He was previously General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and President of Laos from 2016 to 2021.
Early life
Bou ...
of Laos
* President
Uhuru Kenyatta
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Kenyatta was chosen by Daniel Arap Moi as his preferred successor, but Kenyatta was defeated by opposition le ...
of Kenya
* President
Vladimir Putin
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of Russia
* President
Alexander Lukashenko
Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (as transliterated from Russian language, Russian; also transliterated from Belarusian language, Belarusian as Alyaksand(a)r Ryhoravich Lukashenka;, ; rus, Александр Григорьевич Лука ...
of Belarus
* President
Nursultan Nazarbayev
Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev ( kk, Нұрсұлтан Әбішұлы Назарбаев, Nūrsūltan Äbişūlı Nazarbaev, ; born 6 July 1940) is a Kazakh politician and military officer who served as the first President of Kazakhstan, in off ...
of Kazakhstan
* President
Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev (Uzbek Latin: ''Shavkat Miromonovich (Miromon o‘g‘li) Mirziyoyev'', Uzbek Cyrillic: Шавкат Миромонович (Миромон ўғли) Мирзиёев ; born 24 July 1957) is an Uzbek politician ...
of Uzbekistan
* President
Almazbek Atambayev
Almazbek Sharshen uluu Atambayev ( ky, Алмазбек Шаршен уулу Атамбаев, translit=Almazbek Şarşen uulu Atambayev; born 17 September 1956) is a Kyrgyz politician who served as the President of Kyrgyzstan from 1 December 2 ...
of Kyrgyzstan
* President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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of Turkey
* President
Miloš Zeman
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of the Czech Republic
* President
Doris Leuthard
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of Switzerland
* President
Mauricio Macri
Mauricio Macri (; born 8 February 1959) is an Argentine businessman and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. He has been the leader of the Republican Proposal (PRO) party since its founding in 2005. He previou ...
of Argentina
* President
Michelle Bachelet
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of Chile
Heads of international organizations
*
Secretary-General of the United Nations
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The role of the secretary-g ...
,
Antonio Guterres
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*
World Bank President,
Jim Yong Kim
Jim Yong Kim (; born December 8, 1959), also known as Kim Yong (/金墉), is an American physician and anthropologist who served as the 12th president of the World Bank from 2012 to 2019.
A global health leader, Kim was formerly the chair of ...
* Managing director of the
International Monetary Fund
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,
Christine Lagarde
Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde (; née Lallouette, ; born 1 January 1956) is a French politician and lawyer who has been serving as President of the European Central Bank since 2019. She previously served as the 11th managing director of the ...
* Director-General of the
International Renewable Energy Agency
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, Adnan Z. Amin
* Executive Chairman of the
World Economic Forum
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,
Klaus Schwab
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Life
Schwab was born to Eugen Wilhelm Schw ...
*
President of the United Nations General Assembly
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Election
...
,
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* Secretary General of the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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, Enzo Quattrociocche
*
Interpol
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Secretary General
Jürgen Stock
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Stock was born on October 4, 1959, in Wetzlar, Germany. He joined the Kriminalpolizei i ...
* Director General of the
World Trade Organization
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in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and e ...
Roberto Azevêdo
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* Director-General of
UNESCO
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Irina Bokova
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* Secretary General of
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Math, science and biology
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Sergei Lebedev
* Director General of the
World Health Organization
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Margaret Chan
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Ministerial level
The online magazine ''
The Diplomat
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'' documents the following incomplete list of ministerial level attendees.
* : Unspecified minister-level delegation
* : Trade Minister
Steven Ciobo
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* : Economy Minister
Shahin Mustafayev
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* : Unspecified minister-level delegation
* : Secretary for Strategic Affairs Hussein Ali Kalout
* : Minister of External Economic Relations Kim Yong-jae
* : Trade and Industry Minister Tarek Kabil
* : Parliament Secretary General
Klaus Welle
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* : Minister of Transport and Communications
Anne Berner
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* : Former Prime Minister, Member of the French Senate
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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He resigned after France's rejection of the referendum on the European Union draft constitution. Howeve ...
* : Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy
Brigitte Zypries
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* : Minister of Economy and Finance
Ali Tayebnia
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* : unspecificed minister-level delegation
* : Minister of the Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber
* : Economic Minister Mohamed Saeed
* : Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara
* : Science and Innovation Minister
Paul Goldsmith
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* : Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Saif Ahmed Al Sulaiti
* : Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Environment Gratiela Gavrilescu
* : Minister of Energy, Industry, and Mineral Resources
Khalid A. Al-Falih
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* : Minister for National Development and Second Minister for Finance
Lawrence Wong
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* : National Assembly member
Park Byeoung-seug
* : unspecificed minister-level delegation
* : Minister of Foreign Affairs
Don Pramudwinai
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Don attended Wat Suthiwararam and Suankularb Wittayalai ...
, Minister of Transportation
Arkhom Termpittayapaisith
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, Minister of Commerce Apiradi Tantraporn, Minister of Digital for Economy and Society Pichet Durongkaveroj, and Minister of Science and Technology Atchaka Sibunruang
* : Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister and Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs Stuart Young
* : Culture Minister Mohamed Zine El-Abidine
* : Unspecified ministerial-level delegation
* : Minister of State and Group CEO of ADNOC Dr.
Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber
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* : Chancellor of the Exchequer
Philip Hammond
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* : delegation led by White House adviser
Matt Pottinger
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.
* : delegation led by
Toshihiro Nikai
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, secretary-general of the ruling party
Liberal Democratic Party.
Venues
In 2017, the events were held at
National Convention Center in the urban
Chaoyang District and
Yanqi Lake International Convention Center and Jixian hall at
Yanqi Lake Conference Center in the
outer suburb Huairou District
Huairou District () is situated in northern Beijing about from the city center (about a 1½ to 2 hour drive).
History
In 1995 during the United Nation's 4th World's Women Conference in Beijing, the Civil Society community was forced to meet in t ...
.
2019
A second Belt and Road Forum was held from 25 to 27 April 2019 in Beijing.
References
External links
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