A COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY
The Global Development Initiative (GDI), first enunciated in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech at the General Debate of the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly in September 2021, presents a more comprehensive vision and a step forward from China’s run of its connectivity-driven Belt and Road Initiative. The two apparently complement each other as two stages of a larger goal for building a community with a shared future for humanity.
While the nine years of the Belt and Road Initiative have been focused on enhancing growth through economic corridors and physical infrastructure, the GDI aims to contribute to the evolution of the overall development philosophies through the enhancement of social infrastructure by sharing best practices, capacity-building and knowledge transfer, which
