Beijing Review

Road to Peace and Development

The author is a professor at the Institute of Foreign Relations, Tsinghua University

The Belt and Road Initiative, aiming to build a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along and beyond the ancient Silk Road trade routes, has become an important platform for participating countries to fight the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. China and other participants have been helping each other in the combat: cooperating in response and control through timely sharing of information, diagnosis and treatment experience and best practices, strengthening and upgrading public health systems, promoting dialogue among health experts, and providing assistance

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