The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opened on Wednesday. Since the Party’s founding in July 1921, themes of CPC national congresses explicitly define the path and goal of the Party. The 96-year-old Communist Party of China (CPC) is the world’s largest ruling party with more than 89 million members. General Secretary Xi Jinping gave the opening speech. He focused on people-centered development, harmony of nature and human beings, common global peace and prosperity. The speech took three-and-a-half-hours. In it, he expounded on the theme of “socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era”.
He also highlighted his trademark Belt and Road initiative. The program will be based on Chinese-led investment in bridges, rails, ports and energy in over 60 countries. The initiative will also tackle poverty in recipient countries. Also known as The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road; or the One Belt and One Road Initiative (OBOR), The Belt and Road (B&R); and now as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). (See also: Future Development Reads: China’s Belt and Road Initiative)
The strategy focuses on connectivity and cooperation between Eurasian countries, primarily the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the land-based Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the oceangoing Maritime Silk Road (MSR). A university alliance centered at Xi’an Jiaotong University aims to support the Belt and Road initiative with research and engineering, and to foster understanding and academic exchange. To ensure the success of the initiative, China is interested in supporting education. This is being done by strengthening exchanges between China and the rest of the world but also at through development projects, and education again has a role to play.
The Education Action Plan of the Belt and Road Initiate (https://eng.yidaiyilu.gov.cn/zchj/qwfb/30277.htm) aims to:
- Promote Closer People-to-People Ties
- Cultivate Supporting Talent
- Achieve Common Development, including educational cooperation and mutual learning to boost the development of education in the countries involved
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