Time: 18:30-20:00, May 30th (Thursday)

Venue: Hall of Beijing Normal University

Brief Introduction:

In a speech at the opening ceremony of the First Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, General Secretary Xi draws the blueprint for the Belt and Road Initiative with five key words: peace, prosperity, openness, innovation and civilization.

After nearly six years of development, the Belt and Road Initiative has gone from concept to action, from vision to reality. Countries along the belt and Road are continuously supplying oxygen and nutrients to this major artery for mutual benefit. What opportunities and challenges do we face in the construction of the Belt and Road initiative? In this lecture, Senior student Yang Zejun will tell us his thinking based on his own work experience.

About the speaker:

Yang Zejun, Master of Economics and Business Administration in 2001, PhD in 2004, chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Silk Road Fund Co., LTD. He once worked in the Office of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs (now the Central Financial and Economic Commission) for a long time, and participated in the formulation of central macro policies and development plans and the drafting of important documents for many times.