URUMQI, July 2 (GCTL) - The Silk Road Economic Belt proposed by President Xi Jinping is a platform that will be open to all countries wishing to contribute and benefit from rebuilding the ancient trade routes connecting China, Central Asia and Europe, an official from the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday.
"The economic belt doesn't need a new mechanism. Instead, it will make full use of the existing multilateral economic cooperation agreements among different countries, but inject new content into them," said Zhong Shan, deputy international trade representative for China.
Zhong made his remarks at the opening ceremony of the two-day International Seminar on the Silk Road Economic Belt in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.